Benoît Peeters
| Benoît Peeters | |
|---|---|
Benoît Peeters in March 2010 | |
| Born | 28 August 1956 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Area | Writer |
Notable works | Les Cités obscures |
| Awards | Ptolémée Award (1995)
Inkpot Award (2014) Officier des Arts et des Lettres (2014) |
| www.benoitpeeters.net | |
Benoît Peeters (French: [petɛʁs]; born 28 August 1956) is a French writer, essayist, professor, screenwriter, and critic. He is also an expert on the world of Tintin.
In 2022–2023, Benoît Peeters held the Chair of Artistic Creation at the Collège de France, which hosts, for one academic year, a prominent figure representing contemporary artistic creation in all its forms. He gave a series of lectures on the Poétique de la bande dessinée ("Poetics of Comics").