title: Jean-Michel Iribarren
text: # Jean-Michel Iribarren
  
  Jean-Michel Iribarren (born 13 February 1958) is a French author. He is the author of L'insecte, a monologue in which the AIDS virus speaks and the author denounces the silence that surrounded the death of homosexuals at the beginning of epidemic.
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Narratives
  
  * L'Insecte (2000), éditions du Seuil
  
  ### Poems
  
  * Parce qu'eux (1989), éditions Saint-Germain-des-Près
  
  ### Acting
  
  * Puissance de la parole (1988), a film by Jean-Luc Godard
  * Artificial eyes (1988), a film by Catherine Jouaffre
  