Jean-Marie Laclavetine (born February 17, 1954, in Bordeaux) is a French editor, writer and translator of Italian literature into French.

Jean-Marie Laclavetine was born in 1954 in Bordeaux.

At the age of twenty-six he published his first novel, Les Emmurés, for which he received the literary award Prix Fénéon in 1981.

Since 1989 he has been a member of the Éditions Gallimard publishing house Comité de Lecture.

He translated the Italian authors Alberto Savinio, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Leonardo Sciascia, Vitaliano Brancati and Alberto Moravia into French.