Jean-Luc Bitton (born in 1959 in

Lyon, France Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of th ...

) is a writer and journalist. Together with Raymond Cousse, he wrote ''Emmanuel Bove : La Vie Comme une Ombre'', a biography of the writer

Emmanuel Bove Emmanuel Bove (20 April 1898 – 19 July 1945) was a French writer, who also published under the pseudonyms of Pierre Dugast and Jean Vallois. Life and career Emmanuel Bove was born Emmanuel Bobovnikoff on 20 April 1898 in Paris to a Jewish ...

. He also participated in the creation of the Bove segment of the television series ''A Century of Writers'' (1997) and has created a website devoted entirely to Bove. He will also be the first biographer of French poet

Jacques Rigaut Jacques Rigaut (; 30 December 1898 – 9 November 1929) was a French surrealist poet. Born in Paris, he was part of the Dadaist movement. His works frequently talked about suicide and he came to regard its successful completion as his occupation. ...

, in a forthcoming book scheduled for publication in 2014. He has published articles in the journals ''Jungle'', ''Perpendicular'', ''The Series'', the ''Nouvelle Revue Français''e and ''Rue Saint Ambrose''.

Works

*''Emmanuel Bove : La Vie Comme une Ombre'', with Raymond Cousse. Preface by Peter Handke. Castor Astral (1994) *''Nos Amours. Un Siècle de Lettres d'Amour'', Flammarion (2001) *''La Mer de la Tranquillité: Images'', with Dolorès Marat, Les Petits Matins (2005) *''Jacques Rigaut, le suicidé magnifique'', Preface by Annie Le Brun, Gallimard (2019) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bitton, Jean-Luc 1959 births French journalists Living people French male non-fiction writers