About Yves Laliberté

Yves Laliberté is the author of the Quebec bestsellers in the series THE GOD SECRET, including Message from the Templars and Le trésor enfoui. He is continuing the popular series with Volumes III and IV, released in bookstores in 2024: Les enfants sacrifiés and Le vortex de feu. He is currently finalizing the revision of the manuscript for Volume V, titled La bombe de Pythagore, which, for the first time, will tell a complete story within a single volume.

He made his debut in the Quebec market in the early 2000s with action thrillers published by Direct Livre, including Tutti Footsie and Le cyclope. Even in early adolescence, he greatly enjoyed writing and self-binding short novels in the same literary genre. This enjoyment was amplified tenfold by the collaboration of his childhood friend, Marc Chartrand, who illustrated his comic strips and novels.  

This passion did not prevent him from enthusiastically engaging in team sports in organized leagues, such as hockey, broomball (this was in 1970), and fastball, where he was among the best hitters with an impressive batting average of .333. Furthermore, for years he was involved in a local youth community group called the 3-J (youth for youth by youth), which provided recreational activities for children in the region, including sponsored pee-wee baseball teams, dances with the most popular rock bands of the era, municipal winter carnivals, amateur nights, and comedic plays, not to mention the weekly column he wrote for Le Bulletin de Buckingham magazine.  

Yves Laliberté must have been destined for this path, as his favorite toy in elementary school was a large Underwood typewriter. It had the robustness required to withstand his vigorous typing from morning to night after Yves abandoned the piano for another keyboard and different kinds of notes.

He quickly realized he wanted to build his life around books, pursuing studies in French literature at the University of Ottawa. There, he wrote a doctoral thesis on Les Îles de la nuit, the most famous collection of poems by Quebec author Alain Grandbois (1900-1975). A recipient of various scholarships from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Quebec government, and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa, he published in literary journals before authoring scholarly works, Alain Grandbois, prosateur et poète (David, 1997) and Les rituels de l’absolu   Essai sur la poésie d’Alain Grandbois (David, 2001). Critics regarded this latter study as a brilliant work that renewed understanding of Grandbois's poetry, establishing Yves Laliberté as the expert in the field. Here's what a well-known academic, Réjean Robidoux, had to say:

A masterful, magnificently written essay. Its quality irrefutably establishes the poet's universal greatness. However, one must also acknowledge the exegete's intellectual insight (intus legere) and almost immeasurable erudition.

As a result, from the age of twenty-one, Yves Laliberté went on to teach Quebec literature courses at the University of Ottawa, with Gabrielle Roy and Anne Hébert being his preferred authors in the curriculum at the time.

Yves was born in Masson (now the eastern district of the amalgamated city of Gatineau), a small village founded at the time around a paper mill. This is probably no coincidence, as he never lacked the material support, newsprint, for his caricatures and writings.