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Edition 92 (2017)

Literary awardFrench LiteratureNovelNonfiction

Winners

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Olivier Guez おりゔぃえ げず Winner

A documentary narrative that tracks SS doctor Josef Mengele’s postwar flight and hiding in South America. Through research and reporting, it reveals the networks that sheltered him and the persistence of war-crime memory.

Following the escape route shows how the shadow of war crimes still persists.

217 pages
historywar crimesinvestigationjustice and memoryNazism