Jean-Jacques Pelletier


Jean-Jacques Pelletier is a French Canadian philosophy professor and author. Pelletier was a long-time philosophy teacher with the Lévis-Lauzon post-secondary school, but is best known in several media as an author of French-language thrillers, some of which have an element of fantasy. Many of his works have received critical acclaim, as his short story "La Bouche barbelée" won a CBC/Radio-Canada contest in 1993.
Pelletier has had several other works published as well, and his works Blunt - Les treize derniers jours and La Chair disparue were published as serials in the popular Montreal magazine La Presse in 1997-1998.
La Chair disparue was chosen for inclusion in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2005, where it was defended by pianist Alain Lefèvre.

Novels

L'Homme trafiqué L'Homme à qui il poussait des bouches La Femme trop tard Blunt - Les treize derniers jours L'Assassiné de l'intérieur
  • Les Gestionnaires de l'Apocalypse series:
  • * La Chair disparue
  • * L'Argent du monde
  • * Le Bien des autres
  • * La Faim de la Terre Les visages de l'humanité
  • ''Dix petits hommes blancs''

Essays

  • "Caisse de retraite et placements"
  • "Écrire pour inquiéter et pour construire"
  • "Les taupes frénétiques" Hurtubise Editions
  • "La fabrique de l'extrême" Hurtubise Editions
  • "La Prison de l'urgence" Hurtubise Editions
  • "Questions d'écriture" Hurtubise Editions

Short stories

  • "L'Homme qui avait avalé un gouffre"
  • "La Bouche barbelée"
  • "L'Enfant bosselé" L'Assassiné de l'intérieur
  • "La Mort aux dents"