Jérôme Peignot

Jérôme Peignot
Born 10 June 1926
Paris
Alma mater Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Occupation poet, writer, essayist
Awards Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres‎[*], Prix Sainte-Beuve

Jérôme Peignot (born 1926) is a French novelist,[1] poet, pamphleteer, and an expert in typography. The author of some thirty books, he was awarded the Prix Sainte-Beuve, took part in publishing the writings of Laure (his aunt Colette Peignot),[2] as well as a major anthology on "Typoésie". He is the grandson of Georges Peignot, typographer and director of the foundry G. Peignot et Fils. He is also known for having launched the concept of acousmatic sound in the 1960s.

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References

  1. "Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, écrivain" (in French). Le Figaro. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  2. Sweedler, Milo (2009-06-30). The dismembered community: Bataille, Blanchot, Leiris, and the remains of Laure. University of Delaware Press. pp. 74–. ISBN 978-0-87413-052-2. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
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