Tony Duvert, the most infamous French gay writer since Jean Genet, died in July this year.

A writer criminally undertranslated and consequently barely known in the primarily English-speaking areas of the world… Duvert is one of the more significant and idiosyncratic contemporary French fiction writers. He’s also one of the most mysterious. – Dennis Cooper

An advocate of adolescents’ and even children’s rights to sex, Tony Duvert can be seen as a symbol for the sexually liberal seventies. – Destroyer Blog

 

Dennis Cooper made an extensive blog post about Duvert with “two exclusive excerpts and a jumble of almost everything I could find online either by or about him in English” so don’t miss that one!