# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-peju
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:30:47.088Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-peju"
name: "Pierre Péju"
slug: "pierre-peju"
description: "Pierre Péju is a French philosopher, novelist and essayist. Born in Lyon, 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 and the latter by Ina Rilke."
tagline: "French novelist, essayist and professor of philosophy"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pierre_P%C3%A9ju.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1946-08-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.98
  momentum:             2.168674698795181
  historical:           6.345609333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D9%BE%DA%98%D9%88"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D9%8A%DA%86%D9%88"
    title: "پير پيچو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_P%C3%A9ju"
    title: "Pierre Péju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_P%C3%A9ju"
    title: "Pierre Péju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_P%C3%A9ju"
    title: "Pierre Péju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_P%C3%A9ju"
    title: "Pierre Péju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_P%C3%A9ju"
    title: "Pierre Péju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2093819"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump