Guillaume Dustan

Oliver Davis (University of Warwick)

Ed. by David Houston Jones, University of Exeter
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 28 Nov 1965
Died 3 Oct 2005
Activity 1996-2005

Places

Born in France
Active in France

Cultural Identities

LGBTQ

Activities

Primary

Journalist
Judge
Novelist

Resources

Dustan's Works

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i) Biographical introduction

Guillaume Dustan was born William Baranès in November 1965 into a middle-class French Jewish family. After studying at the prestigious Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (“Sciences-Po”) and subsequently at the élite management training school for high-ranking civil servants, the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (1988 cohort), Baranès worked as a magistrate in the French administrative court system until 1996, when writer Guillaume Dustan emerged with the publication of his first book, Dans ma chambre. The contrast could hardly be more stark between the high-powered but somewhat fusty establishment environment inhabited by Baranès and the democratic gay subculture or scene, “le ghetto”, as he often calls it, which he chronicles and

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Citation: Davis, Oliver. "Guillaume Dustan". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 June 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11888, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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