Daniel Pennac
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Daniel Pennac (real name Daniel Pennacchioni, born 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French writer. He received the Renaudot prize in 2007 for his essay Chagrin d'école.
After studying in Nice he became a teacher. He began to write for children and then wrote his book series “La Saga Malaussène”, that tells the story of Benjamin Malaussène, a scapegoat, and his family in Belleville, Paris.
His writing style can be humorous and imaginative like in “La Saga Malaussène”, but he can also write “Comme un roman”, a pedagogic essay. His Comic Débauche, written jointly with Jacques Tardi, treats the topic of unemployment, revealing his social preoccupations.
In the French presidential elections of 2002 he was a member of the shadow cabinet of Dieudonné.
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[edit] Literary awards
His 1984 novel L'œil du loup was translated into English as Eye of the Wolf by Sarah Adams, winning her the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation in 2005. In 2007 he won the prix Renaudot for chagrin d'école.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] La Saga Malaussène
- Au bonheur des ogres (1985)
- La fée carabine (1987) (published in English as The Fairy Gunmother)
- La petite marchande de prose (1989)
- Monsieur Malaussène (1995)
- Monsieur Malaussène au théâtre (1996)
- Des Chrétiens et des maures (1996)
- Aux fruits de la passion (1999)
[edit] Essays
- Le service militaire au service de qui ?, (1973) published under his real name Daniel Pennachioni
- Comme un roman (1992)
[edit] Others
- Le Dictateur et le hamac (2003)
- Messieurs les enfants (1997)
- Les grandes vacances, (photographies) Pennac and Robert Doisneau (2002)
- La vie de famille
- Cabot-Caboche (1982)
- L'œil du loup (1984)
- Le sens de la Houppelande
- La débauche
- Le tour du ciel
- Qu'est-ce que tu attends, Marie?
- Vercors d'en haut: La réserve naturelle des hauts-plateaux
- Le grand Rex
- Sahara
- Kamo: L'agence Babel (1992)
- L'Évasion de Kamo
- Kamo et moi
- Kamo: L'idée du siècle
