The Association des écrivains de langue française has chosen Oliver Rohe's novel "Chant Balnéaire", published by Allia. The book recounts an episode in the Lebanese civil war from the point of view of a teenager, whose father is German and whose mother is Lebanese of Armenian origin, as he takes refuge in a seaside bungalow with his mother and sister, fleeing the fighting raging in Beirut.
Chaired since 2016 by Georgia Makhlouf, the jury also awarded a special mention to Céline Regnard's essay "En transit", published by Éditions Anamosa.