
Modesty and Shame
1995 · 5.3/10
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Director & actor · born 14 December 1955 · Saint-Cloud, Seine-et-Oise [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Hervé Guibert (14 December 1955 – 27 December 1991) was a French writer and photographer. The author of numerous novels and autobiographical studies, he played a considerable role in changing French public attitudes to HIV/AIDS. He was a close friend of Michel Foucault.
Guibert was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, to a middle-class family and spent his early years in Paris, moving to La Rochelle from 1970 to 1973.
Where to start: Modesty and Shame (1995).