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Edition 61 (2016, held 3 times in year)

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Ivan Jablonka いゔぁん じゃぶろんか Winner

A meticulously researched nonfiction book reconstructing the life and death of Laëtitia Perrais, murdered in 2011. It turns a personal tragedy into a broader inquiry into gendered violence and the systems surrounding it.

A work of reportage that looks beyond one crime to the distortions of society.

379 pages
sexual violencegendersociologyjusticereportage