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Daniel Pennac

Daniel Pennac (real name Daniel Pennacchioni, born 1 December 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay Chagrin d'école. Daniel Pennacchioni is the fourth and last son of a Corsican and Provençal family. His father was a polytechnicien who became an officer of the colonial army, reaching the rank of general at retirement and his mother, a housewife, was a self-taught reader. His childhood was spent wherever his father was stationed, in Africa (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Algeria, Equatorial Africa), Southeast Asia (Indochina) and France (including La Colle-sur-Loup). His father's love for poetry gave him a taste for books that he quickly devoured in the family library or at school. After studying in Nice he became a teacher. He began to write for children, including his series "La Saga Malaussène", that tells the story of Benjamin Malaussène, a scapegoat, and his family in Belleville, Paris. In a 1997 piece for Le Monde, Pennac stated that Malaussène's youngest brother, Le Petit, was the son of Jerome Charyn's New York detective, Isaac Sidel. His writing style can be humorous and imaginative as in "La Saga Malaussène", or scholarly, as exemplified by the essay "Comme un roman." His comic Débauche, written jointly with Jacques Tardi, deals with unemployment. In 1990 Pennac won the "Prix du Livre Inter" for La petite marchande de prose. His 1984 novel L'œil du loup was translated into English as Eye of the Wolf by Sarah Adams – later known as Sarah Ardizzone – and published by Walker Books in 2002; Adams won the biennial British Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation in 2005 for that work. In 2002 he won the Grinzane Cavour Prize. In 2007 Pennac won the Prix Renaudot for Chagrin d'école. He won the "Grand Prix Metropolis bleu" in 2008 for his complete work. In 2013 he received an honorary degree in pedagogy from the University of Bologna. Source: Article "Daniel Pennac" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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Born:
Dec 1, 1944 In Casablanca, Morocco
Movie/TV Credits:
6
First Appeared:
In the series Apostrophes 1975-01-10
Latest Project:
Movie Daniel Pennac: Ho visto Maradona! 2022-10-16
Known For
Poster of Daniel Pennac: Ho visto Maradona!
Poster of Square
Poster of Just So Stories
Poster of Apostrophes
Filmography
Movie Daniel Pennac: Ho visto Maradona! Self 2022-10-16
Movie Le avventure del lupo Self 2018-10-21
Movie Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens Self 2017-01-19
Series Square Self 2012-01-08
Series Just So Stories Narrator 2008-04-18
Series Apostrophes Self 1975-01-10