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Graphic novels take top prizes at Taipei book fair awards
12/15/2020 10:02 PM
The winning books. CNA photo Dec. 15, 2020
Taipei, Dec. 15 (CNA) Two graphic novels about a man in a psychiatric hospital and the daily lives of nine women in Taipei won top prizes at the 2021 Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) Book Prize on Tuesday, the first time graphic novels have won in the fiction and non-fiction categories.
The graphic novel A Trip to Asylum by Pam Pam Liu is set in the 1990s, and follows a man as he is admitted to and eventually released from a psychiatric hospital.
At the awards ceremony, Liu said the story is one she thought about for more than 10 years and was inspired by news and books she read, as well as her own childhood. ....

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