Anthropologist, author radio personality, he won on 1 November 2017 the Governor General literary prize for essay in French for "Les Yeux tristes de mon camion". He co-hosted a program on Radio-Canada with his friend Bernard Arcand.
Brother of geologist Michel A. Bouchard , specialist of the Pingualuit crater.
His longtime companion and co-author Marie-Christine Lévesque born in Maria, Gaspésie, Québec died on 16 July 2020 in Québec, Canada.