On a longtemps soupçonné Gaëtan Dugas, un steward canadien, d avoir été le premier homme à transmettre le Sida : il était homosexuel et aimait les nuits fauves. Mais d autres avaient contracté la maladie avant lui. Qui fut le premier, alors ? Philippe Besson redonne vie aux merveilleuses années 1980, juste avant l hécatombe. Et nous livre une partie de la réponse.
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In 1999, Besson, who was a jurist at that time, was inspired to write his first novel, In the Absence of Men, while reading some accounts of ex-servicemen of the First World War. The novel won the Emmanuel-Roblès prize. L'Arrière-saison, published in 2002, won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire 2003. Un garçon d'Italie was nominated for the Goncourt and the Médicis prizes. Seeing that his works aroused so much interest, Philippe Besson then decided to dedicate himself exclusively to his writing.
