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Authors: Pierre Szalowski
He left the world of videogames in 2003 to become a screenwriter, and
Ma fille mon ange
(‘My Daughter, My Angel’) was his first major project to make it to
the big screen. These days Pierre is working on a pilot for a new TV series and working on a new novel.
Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather
is his first book. He lives in Montreal.
A Note on the Type
Plantin Light was designed by Frank Hinman Pierpont in the early twentieth century for the the Monotype Corporation. Inspired by type cut by the French typographer Robert
Granjon and displayed at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, and named after the sixteenth-century printer Christophe Plantin, Pierpont’s type is sturdy, a little bit solemn and very
readable.
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