Hervé Guibert

Hervé Guibert was born in 1955 in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris. After spending his childhood in the 14th arrondissement of the capital, he moved to La Rochelle to attend secondary school, where he became interested in theatre and joined a theatre company. In 1973, he returned to Paris to take the entrance exam for the IDHEC, the French film school. His first book, La Mort propagande, was published in 1977, shortly before he started working in the culture section of Le Monde, where he wrote reviews on photography and cinema. Guibert's work is wide-ranging and includes novels, photography, film scripts and theatre adaptations. In 1988 he was diagnosed with HIV infection and in 1990 he revealed his HIV-positive status in the novel The Friend Who Didn't Save My Life, the first instalment of his AIDS trilogy. Much of Guibert's writing is self-fiction and is characterised by a search for simplicity. At the age of 36 and with the disease at an advanced stage, he attempted suicide with digitalis. Two weeks later, in December 1991, he died of this poisoning. He is buried on the island of Elba. https://www.herveguibert.net/ + info www.audiotecafotografica.com