Jean-Louis Grosmaire, a prominent Québécois author, has written a total of twelve books in the past eleven years, all published by Les Éditions du Vermillon in Ottawa. Has received the literary prize LeDroit three times (awarded by the Ottawa newspaper LeDroit) for his children's fiction. Grosmaire was born in the Ivory Coast to French parents and raised in Senegal. After completing his Master's Degree in Geography at the Sorbonne in Paris, he moved to Quebec where he obtained his Doctorate Degree in Social Geography from the University of Montreal. The Outaouais region in Quebec has been his home since 1975 where he works as a professor and writer.

These books are all available from "Les Éditions du Vermillon", Ottawa.


There are three books available from the Loup series:
  • 1992, Paris-Québec
  • 1997, Le Loup au Québec
  • 1998, Paris-Hanoi, Awarded the Literary Prize LeDroit in 1998
The story of a young Parisian (Louis Travelle) who travels the world in search of adventure. The author is now completing the next sequel "Paris-NewYork".

1996, Lettres à deux-mains, Un amour de guerre
(Letters by Two Hands. A Story of Love in War)

A story of war-time love revealed through a collection of authentic letters written by the author's grandfather to his new bride in Quebec.


1995 ,Une île pour deux (An Island for Two)

After completing a documentary on Yugoslavia, a journalist travels to Greece where he ends up shipwrecked on a deserted island with a baby he saved from drowning.

1994, Les Chiens de Cahuita (The Dogs of Cahuita)

Amélie, a teacher from Quebec, travels to beautiful and exotic Costa Rica where she witnesses the corrupt lives of drug traffickers and the police system.

Critics
Grosmaire takes his readers to the jungle of Costa Rica ...Grosmaire tells her ( Amélie) story with a certain panache. In fact he has captured the warm and sensual atmosphere of Costa rica as it seen by this middle-aged woman from the cold North. He has taken the usual thriller story and given it an interesting twist.
John Hare The Ottawa Citizen, Mai 1994