Pierre Tisseyre

Pierre Tisseyre, OC (May 5, 1909 – March 3, 1995) was a Canadian lawyer, journalist, writer, and literary editor in Quebec.

At the age of 22, he was hired as legal counsel by Paramount Pictures in Europe, specializing in authors' rights.

[2] Tisseyre spent the rest of World War II in prison camps in Poland and Czechoslovakia.

He wrote 55 heures de guerre based on his experiences; the book was awarded the Prix Cazes in 1944.

In 1973, he launched the Two solitudes collection, which consisted of works by English Canadian authors translated into French.