Hervé Guibert

Hervé Guibert (14 December 1955 – 27 December 1991) was a French writer, photographer, photography critic and filmmaker. A multidisciplinary artist, his work focused on writing, photography and film, and is closely associated with autofiction and autobiographical writing. Guibert's writing frequently drew on his intimate relationships, including his relationships with Thierry Jouno, Michel Foucault and Vincent Marmousez, who appear in fictionalised or semi-fictionalised form in his work. From the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, he worked as a photography critic for Le Monde. In 1984, Guibert and Patrice Chéreau won the César Award for Best Original Screenplay and Dialogues for L'Homme blessé. He became widely known after the publication of À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie in 1990, a roman à clef about illness, friendship and AIDS that included a fictionalised portrait of Foucault. His final books and video work made his experience of AIDS unusually public in French literary and television culture at the beginning of the 1990s.