Lindon, Jerome

▪ 2002

      French publisher (b. June 9, 1925, Paris, France—d. April 9, 2001, Paris), took control of the small independent publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit in 1948, at age 23, and thereafter was a central figure in the nouveau roman (“new novel,” or antinovel) literary movement of the 1950s and '60s. Lindon personally oversaw the publication of significant works by Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Michel Butor, Claude Simon, and, especially, Samuel Beckett. Other prizewinning novelists followed, notably Jean Rouaud and Jean Échenoz in the 1990s. Lindon also published the literary review Critique, several nonfiction books critical of French involvement in Algeria, and works by such prominent philosophers as Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Serres, and Jacques Derrida.

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