Jean-Luc Bitton (born in 1959 in Lyon, France) 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. 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, in a forthcoming book scheduled for publication in 2014. He has published articles in the journals Jungle, Perpendicular, The Series, the Nouvelle Revue Française and Rue Saint Ambrose.

Bitton in 2019

Works

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  • Emmanuel Bove : La Vie Comme une Ombre, with Raymond Cousse. Preface by Peter Handke. Castor Astral (1994) ISBN 2-8592-0226-9
  • Nos Amours. Un Siècle de Lettres d'Amour, Flammarion (2001) ISBN 2-08-067871-X
  • La Mer de la Tranquillité: Images, with Dolorès Marat, Les Petits Matins (2005) ISBN 2-9158791-1-7
  • Jacques Rigaut, le suicidé magnifique, Preface by Annie Le Brun, Gallimard (2019)