PELOT Pierre
France
Pierre Pelot was born on November 13, 1945 in Saint Maurice-sur-Moselle into a modest family as his father was a carpenter and his mother a labourer. He has always lived in the Vosges where, between two books or two plays, he spends his time painting and walking in the forest. He published his debut novel La piste du Dakota in 1965. He first tried his hand at novel writing with westerns for Marabout éditions from 1966 to 1969, then continued with the long series of Dylan Stark adventures for Pocket Marabout until 1967. Since then, he has written more than one hundred and fifty books under his own name, or under pen names such as Pierre Suragne. He has written them in various genres, from detective novels, science fiction, fantasy and literature for young people to so-called general literature… His books have been translated into about twenty languages. In parallel to his novel writing career, Pierre Pelot has worked for the theatre, the cinema and television with contributions such as Les etoiles ensevelies, Le Pain perdu, Fou comme l’Oiseau and L’Eté en pente douce…
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Bibliography :
Les promeneuses sur le bord du chemin (Phébus, 2009)
L’île au trésor (Calmann-Lévy, 2008)
Blues pour Julie (Melis éditions, 2008)
Les Croix en Feu (l’Atalante Jeunesse, mai 2008)
La Croque buissonnière (Nil, 2008)
Les Normales saisonnières (Editions Héloïse d’Ormesson, 2007)
Dylan Stark : Quatre Hommes pour l’Enfer (Le Navire en pleine ville, 2007)
Dylan Stark : La Couleur de Dieu (Le Navire en pleine ville, 2006)
Dylan Stark : Sierra brûlante (Le Navire en pleine ville, 2006)
L’ombre des voyageuses (Editions Héloïse d’Ormesson, 2006)
Kid Jesus (J’Ai Lu, 2006)
Delirium circus (Denoël, 2005)
H.A.N.D. (Tome 3) : Le messie des rats (Dupuis, 2005 - avec Emmanuel Vegliona)
Méchamment dimanche (Héloïse d’Ormesson, 2005 - Prix Marcel Pagnol)
Homo Sapiens : il va changer la face du monde (Bamboo)
Homo Sapiens : l’aventure de l’homme (Flammarion, 2004)
Homo Sapiens : l’histoire de l’enfant loup (Flammarion, 2004)
H.A.N.D. (tome 2) : Jungle de rouille (Dupuis, 2004 - avec Emmanuel Vegliona)
Les chiens qui traversent la nuit (Rivages, 2003)
C’est ainsi que les hommes vivent (Denoël, 2003)
Si loin de Caïn (Rivages, 2002)
Vincent et les évadés du zoo (Pocket Jeunesse, 2002)
H.A.N.D. (Tome 1) : La peau des ombres (Éditions Dupuis, 2002 - avec Emmanuel Vegliona)
Brocéliande (Rivages, 2002)
Debout dans le ventre blanc du silence (Gallimard, 2001 - avec Yves Coppens)
L’été en pente douce (Gallimard, 1980)
L’ombre de la louve (Seuil, 2000)
Le pacte des loups (Rivages, 2000)
Fœtus-party (Denoël, 1999)
Synopsis of Les promeneuses sur le bord du chemin
Adrien Norte walks into the agency’s office. A bestselling author, he is meeting with Blair, a detective.
He has received anonymous, threatening letters. Blair will have to find out whether the threats mean anything, but especially who the sender is.
A relationship will develop between the two men, in a heavy and dream-like atmosphere, that will recall a chess match. But who leads the match ? Is it really only a match ? Or a matter of life and death ? Where is the line between the real and the unreal ?
With a consummate talent, Pierre Pelot will guide his readers down the meanders of the strange confrontation between the two protagonists. Each detail of the story matters and the author slowly unravels, in his inimitable style, the mystery of the identity of the women who walked along the roadside.
Synopsis of L’île au trésor
Global warming has wreaked havoc in the 21st century. The sea level has risen changing the outline of the seashore and the geography of the continents. All along the new shoreline,at the heart of the devastated and newly fragile states, new pirates have suddenly appeared. They are looters and plunderers, mercenaries of all types. Flint was one of them, one of the strongest, the wildest but also the cleverest of the lot. He has converted his booty into gold ingots, the only real value left in the world. And he has hidden the greatest part of his wealth on an island that only he and his closest accomplices are familiar with.
A few years later, on a Caribbean island partly saved by the rise in the sea level, a certain Captain Bill ends up in a tavern run by Sally-Sea and Trelawey. Hounded by a bunch of thugs, Bill will give Jim, Sally-Sea’s nephew whom she took in upon his mother’s mysterious disappearance, a document that looks strangely like a treasure map.
This contemporary adaptation of Treasure Island pays a great tribute to Stevenson’s masterpiece. Treasure Island revisited by Pelot underlines the value and depth of a true adventure novel.
Synopsis of La Croque buissonière
The writer takes his readers on a trip to the country of lard and sauerkraut, where trouts are hand caught and nettle and basket fulls of freshly picked mushrooms are cooked. The book is written in a very personal, rough and dynamic style that fully reflects the writer’s love for the Vosge and its culinary delights, its forests, its illegal hunting, its wild pickings and heavy traditional cuisine.
This humorous work conveys the author’s passion for the humble potato ; it is a declaration of love with a pocket knife where the reader will learn to prepare spring rolls ; it is a true epic narrative of the invention of soup in prehistorical times... It is difficult to imagine such different atmospheres and registers all gathered in a small fascinating book. It is a book fraught with feelings, and it provides fantastic descriptions of a very upsetting nightmare about pitiless hunters ; as well as childhood memories that all connive to make winter and mud lovable and to bring back to mind the smells of the undergrowth.
A great authentic and literary work !
Synopsis of Les Normales saisonnières
It is true that insane, incomprehensible things sometimes happen, things that are totally unbelievable or quirky, like snow in July or heat waves in January, creating a big mess in the seasonal averages. Pont-Croix is a small Breton town near Douarnenez. Datier has traveled there off-season to walk along the coast, particularly between the Pointe du Van and the Pointe du Raz. He seems to be a quiet man but with a weapon at the bottom of his bag, he may spark things off. Pierre Pelot, an expert in implacable screenplays introduces such plot variables as the enigmatic route of a hunter, a storm under a skull, to better confuse the issues which he enjoys best of all. In the climate of a false mystery, he strikes a balance between suspense and defies rationale. His Normales saisonnières push back the limits of writing to probe the subconscious.
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