Jérôme Peignot

Jérôme Georges André Peignot (; 10 June 1926 – 19 July 2025) was a French novelist, 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), as well as a major anthology on "Typoésie". He was the grandson of Georges Peignot, typographer and director of the foundry G. Peignot et Fils. Peignot was also known for having launched the concept of acousmatic sound in the 1960s. His mother was soprano singer Suzanne Peignot. Jérôme Peignot died on 19 July 2025, at the age of 99.

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.