Prix Médicis めでぃしすしょう
Edition 61 (2016, held 3 times in year)
Fiction (French-language works)Translated works (Prix Médicis étranger)Essay/Non-fiction (Prix Médicis essai)
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1 peopleA 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