Beverley Wang
Beverley Wang is a journalist, broadcaster and speaker based in Naarm/Melbourne. She’s a trusted presence on ABC Radio National, where she hosts the Friday edition of Life Matters focusing on psychology and relationships. Bev has appeared at festivals across Australia as an MC and panellist. She’s also ABC News Breakfast’s regular pop culture contributor. Most importantly for this session of The Bookish Club, she is proudly Taiwanese, born and raised in Canada, with family history in Taiwan stretching back hundreds of years.
For the final Bookish Club of 2026, Beverley Wang delves into Taiwan Travelogue, Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s International Booker Prize-winning novel of language, history and power set in Japanese-occupied Taiwan.
