AGQ-F0066

Fonds Pierre Salducci. – February 1949, [ca 25 October 1982]-[after 8 April 1999]. – 41 cm of textual records, some photographs, and 3 cassette tapes.

 

 

 

Biogrpahical sketch:

 

Born in Rouen, France, in 1960, Pierre Salducci (Vuillemin) is a short story writer, novelist and essayist. He studied literature at the Universities of Paris-XIII and Paris-IV. From 1983 to 1986, he taught French and Latin at various collèges and lycées in Seine-St-Denis.

 

His doctoral research focused on Quebec literature, and he decided to come to Quebec as a student in 1988, before settling there permanently and becoming a Canadian citizen in 1995. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix de la nouvelle by the town of Saint-Quentin in France. The following year, he published his first collection of short stories, Souvenirs inventés, with VLB éditeur. From 1990 to 1992, he worked as a literary critic for the newspaper Le Devoir, and from 1992 to 1993 for Radio-Canada radio and television.

 

Pierre Salducci has also been heavily involved in the gay community. As a student at UQAM, he was a member and facilitator of the Association des lesbiennes et des gais de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (ALGUQAM) from 1989 to 1992. He then founded, directed and hosted the first Festival des littératures homosexuelles in 1994. He was director of the documentation centre and library at the Centre communautaire des gais et lesbiennes de Montréal (CCGLM) from 1996 to 1999. He was also a counsellor at Action Séro-Zéro from 1996 to 1997. In 1997, he founded Des livres et des Hommes, an association dedicated to promoting gay and lesbian literature. From 1998 to 2001, he worked as director of the gay collection “L’heure de la sortieˮ at Stanké publishing house.

 

 

Scope and content:

 

The fonds bears witness to Pierre Salducci’s life, especially as regards the writing of several of his published works, such as Écrire gai (1999), Un condamné à vivre s’est échappé (1997), written in collaboration with Yves Navarre, Robert Charbonneau: le doute et le secret (1990), Retour sur les années d’éclipse (1996) and Journal de l’infidèle (2000). The collection also includes a number of unpublished texts: Terres d’exil (short stories), Décalages (short stories), Étranger en ces lieux (short stories) and Au Royaume des Aveugles (novel).

 

The fonds contains mostly typescripts (annotated and unannotated), correspondence produced and received (with Yves Navarre in particular), reference material, a copy of the 1986 Revue Xero, leaflets and brochures, Yves Navarre’s answers to a questionnaire by Pierre Salducci, final versions of texts for the anthology Écrire gai and a program for the play La ménagerie de verre presented at the Théâtre populaire du Québec in January 1991. The fonds also includes photographs and cassette tapes of lectures given by Yves Navarre.

 

The fonds contains the following series:

 

  • AGQ-F0066/S1. Édition et animation littéraire
  • AGQ-F0066/S2. Carrière d’écrivain
  • AGQ-F0066/S3. Correspondance professionnelle reçue
  • AGQ-F0066/S4. Programmes de théâtre

 

 

Notes:

 

Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.

 

Immediate source of acquisition: The fonds was transferred to the AGQ on 27 January 1999 by the fonds’ creator (1999-002).

 

Language: The files are in French.

 

Associated material: Bibliothèque et Archives nationale du Québec holds documents by or about Pierre Salducci in the following fonds: The Claude Beausoleil fonds, the Bertrand Vac fonds and the Jacques Lanctôt fonds. The documents date from 1989 to 1995 and consist mainly of correspondence. BAnQ Vieux-Montréal holds the Yves Navarre fonds (MSS250) with documents dating from 1971 to 1993.

 

Finding aids: Digital inventory of the fonds in Excel format.

 

 

Bibliography:

 

Chartier, R. (2003, mars). Rencontre avec Pierre Salducci. Le Marginal. http://www.lemarginal.com/litterature006.html

 

Pierre Salducci. (2020, 6 April). In Wikipedia. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Salducci

 

Salducci, Pierre. (n.d.). L’île. L’infocentre littéraire des écrivains québécois. http://www.litterature.org/recherche/ecrivains/salducci-pierre-1055/

 

 

 

Dernière modification : 2025-06-26