Benoît Peeters

Benoît Peeters is the sort of mind I deeply admire, someone who refuses to choose between high and low culture and treats both with equal seriousness. Screenwriter, novelist, critic, film director, comics author, and the leading authority on Tintin, he moves between the playful and the scholarly as if no wall existed. Holding the Chair of Artistic Creation at the Collège de France while championing comics says everything about his range. I love thinkers who dignify popular forms without condescension, and his Officer of Arts and Letters honor feels well earned. He is proof that curiosity, pursued without snobbery, can build a remarkable life.

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Name (English)

Benoît Peeters

Name (Japanese)

ブノワ・ペータース

Reading

ぶのわ・ぺーたーす

Born

August 28, 1956 (age 70)

Origin

Paris, France

Occupation

screenwriter / writer / literary critic / film director / comics artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Monkey

University

University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

Awards & achievements

• 2014 Officer of Arts and Letters
• 2014 Inkpot Award
• 1995 Ptolémée Prize

• Official sitehttp://www.benoitpeeters.net
• Xhttps://x.com/benoitpeeters
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt%20Peeters
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%8E%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q788718

Tags

• screenwriter
• writer
• literary critic

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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