Pierre Péju (born 1946) is a French philosopher, novelist and essayist.Bio
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Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, he studied at the Sorbonne. He has published a number of works in different literary genres, the best-known of which are two prize-winning novels ''Le rire de l’ogre'' and ''La petite Chartreuse''. Both titles are studied in French schools and lycees, and both have been translated into English, the former by

Euan Cameron Euan Cameron is the Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History at Union Theological Seminary. He has a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. His work focuses on the Reformation and religion in the Late Middle Ages The late Middle ...

and the latter ('' The Girl from the Chartreuse'') by Ina Rilke.

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