Jean Basile was the pen name of Jean Basile Bezroudnoff (January 5, 1932 – February 10, 1992), a French-born Canadian journalist and novelist from Quebec. A key figure in the underground counterculture of Montreal in the 1960s and 1970s, he is most noted for his "Mongol" trilogy of novels, La Jument des mongols, Le Grand Khan and Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk, and for cofounding the counterculture magazine Mainmise. Born in Paris, France to a Russian immigrant father and a French mother on January 5, 1932, he moved to Montreal in 1960.