Jean PĂ©lĂ©gri (June 20, 1920 â September 24, 2003) was a writer and professor of literature. Of French descent, he was born in Algeria, but left as part of the diaspora of French colonists referred to as pied-noirs following the Algerian War. He was friends with many Algerian writers (such as Mohammed Dib and Kateb Yacine) and, like Jean SĂ©nac, PĂ©lĂ©gri considered himself to be one of them; he always saw