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Genocide book gets French prize
13/11/2007 10:35 - (SA)
Paris - A book recounting the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide won the Prix Medicis, one of France's top literary awards, at a ceremony on Monday.
La Strategie des antilopes (The Strategy of Antelopes) by journalist Jean Hatzfeld describes what happened when in 2003 the Rwandan authorities allowed some 40 000 of those who carried out the massacres to return to their homes.
The Prix Femina - awarded the same day by an all-woman jury - went to another journalist Eric Fittorino for his novel Baisers de cinema (Cinema kisses).
The Femina committee awarded its foreign novel prize to the British writer Edward Saint Aubyn for Mother's Milk.
The Prix Medicis for a foreign work went to Daniel Mendelsohn of the United States for The Lost, about the search for family-members who died in the Holocaust.
- SAPA
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