Jérôme Peignot (born 1926) is a French novelist, poet, pamphleteer, and an expert in

typography Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing ( leading), and ...

. The author of some thirty books, he was awarded the

Prix Sainte-Beuve The Prix Sainte-Beuve, established in 1946, is a French literary prize awarded each year to a writer in the categories "novels" (or "poetry") and "essays" (or "critics"); it is named after the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. The founding jury ...

, took part in publishing the writings of ''Laure'' (his aunt

Colette Peignot Colette Peignot (October 8, 1903 – November 7, 1938) was a French writer and poet. She is most known by the pseudonym ''Laure'', but also wrote under the name ''Claude Araxe''. Profile Peignot was profoundly affected during her childhood by t ...

), as well as a major anthology on "Typoésie". He is the grandson of

Georges Peignot Georges Louis Jean Baptiste Peignot (June 24, 1872 – September 28, 1915) was a French type designer, type founder, and manager of the G. Peignot & Fils foundry until his death in combat during World War I. Father of four children (includi ...

, typographer and director of the foundry

G. Peignot et Fils G. Peignot et Fils foundry (Fonderie G. Peignot et Fils) was a French type foundry, typographic foundry, established in 1898 and closed down between 1919 and 1923 after a merger to become Deberny & Peignot, Deberny & Peignot foundry. Led by George ...

. He is also known for having launched the concept of

acousmatic sound Acousmatic sound is sound that is heard without an originating cause being seen. The word ''acousmatic'', from the French ''acousmatique'', is derived from the Greek word ''akousmatikoi'' (ἀκουσματικοί), which referred to probationary p ...

in the 1960s.

Select works

* * (First edition: Klincksieck, 1989) * Essai. (First edition: 1974) * * * * * * * * * Préface de Bernard Noël * * * * (First edition: 1993) * * (First edition: 1988) * (First edition: 1986) * * * * * Prix Sainte-Beuve. * *

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Jérôme Peignot
official Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Peignot, Jerome 1926 births 20th-century French novelists 21st-century French novelists Living people Writers from Paris French typographers and type designers 20th-century French essayists 20th-century French poets French male essayists French male poets French male novelists 21st-century French essayists Prix Sainte-Beuve winners Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 20th-century French male writers 21st-century French male writers