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
2 people
Jacqueline Harpman
Winner
A novel that develops variations on identity and desire through an imaginative, hallucinatory narrative.
The border between reality and fantasy shifts quietly.
304 pages
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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
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