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Prix Médicis めでぃしすしょう

Edition 40 (1996, held 3 times in year)

Fiction (French-language works)Translated works (Prix Médicis étranger)Essay/Non-fiction (Prix Médicis essai)

Winners

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A novel that develops variations on identity and desire through an imaginative, hallucinatory narrative.

The border between reality and fantasy shifts quietly.

304 pages
identitydesirefantasyfamily
Jean Rolin Winner

A prose work that sketches the contours of organization and power through movement and observation across Europe.

A traveling gaze brings institutional contours into view.

181 pages
travel writingpowerobservationprose