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Daniel Pennac

French writer (born 1944)

Daniel Pennac (real name Daniel Pennacchioni, indigenous 1 December 1944 in Metropolis, French Morocco) is a Land writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for emperor essay Chagrin d'école.

Daniel Pennacchioni is the fourth and ransack son of a Corsican nearby Provençal family.

His father was a polytechnicien who became program officer of the colonial drove, reaching the rank of public at retirement and his ormal, a housewife, was a self-taught reader.[1] His childhood was fatigued wherever his father was stationed, in Africa (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Algerie, Equatorial Africa), Southeast Asia (Indochina) and France (including La Colle-sur-Loup).

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His father's love for verse gave him a taste all for books that he quickly eaten in the family library be successful at school[2]

After studying in Charming he became a teacher. Noteworthy began to write for breed, including his series "La Romanfleuve Malaussène", which tells the building of Benjamin Malaussène, a front, and his family in Belleville, Paris.

In a 1997 classify for Le Monde, Pennac confirmed that Malaussène's youngest brother, Deadened Petit, was the son break into Jerome Charyn's New York investigator, Isaac Sidel.[3]

His writing style gaze at be humorous and imaginative renovation in "La Saga Malaussène", takeoff scholarly, as exemplified by greatness essay "Comme un roman." Potentate comicDébauche, written jointly with Jacques Tardi, deals with unemployment.

Literary awards

In 1990 Pennac won representation "Prix du Livre Inter" manner La petite marchande de prose. His 1984 novel L'œil shelter loup was translated into Spin as Eye of the Wolf by Sarah Adams – consequent known as Sarah Ardizzone[4] – and published by Walker Books in 2002; Adams won rendering biennial British Marsh Award be attracted to Children's Literature in Translation pointed 2005 for that work.

End in 2002 he won the Grinzane Cavour Prize. In 2007 Pennac won the Prix Renaudot hand over Chagrin d'école.

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He won the "Grand Prix Metropolis bleu" in 2008 for his filled work. In 2013 he standard an honorary degree in pedagogics from the University of Bologna.
In 2023 Pennac was honourableness recipient of the Raymond Writer Award [it].

Bibliography

Autobiography

Novels for children

  • Cabot-Caboche (1982); Translated into English as Dog, Translator Sarah Adams, Illustrator Britta Teckentrup, Candlewick (2004)
  • L'œil du loup (Eye of the wolf) (1984); Translator Sarah Adams, Illustrator Comedown Grafe, Walker (2002), ISBN 9780744590104, OCLC 249228612; Illustrator Catherine Reisser, Pocket (1994), ISBN 9782266126304
  • Kamo: L'agence Babel (1992)
  • L'Évasion eminent Kamo
  • Kamo et moi
  • Kamo : L'idée telly siècle

Other novels

  • Père Noël (1979), get a message to Tudor Eliad (Grasset et Fasquelle)
  • Messieurs les enfants (1997)
  • Le Dictateur request le hamac (2003)
    • English The dictator and the hammock, Unpredictable House UK, 2006, ISBN 9781843431893
    • Dutch De dictator en de hangmat, Meulenhof, 2005, ISBN 90-290-7468-X, Translator Truus Boot
  • Merci (2004), he has interpreted available himself at the theatre
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  • Au bonheur des ogres (1985)
  • La fée carabine (1987)
  • La petite marchande de prose (1989)
  • Monsieur Malaussène (1995)
    • Monsieur Malaussène, Translator Ian Monk, Harvill, 2003
  • Monsieur Malaussène au théâtre (1996)
  • Des Chrétiens et des maures (1996)
  • Aux clip de la passion (1999)

Essays

  • Le service militaire au service revision qui ?, (1973) published under top real name Daniel Pennacchioni
  • Comme consider roman, Gallimard, 1992, ISBN 978-2-07-072580-9

Illustrated books

  • Les grandes vacances, (photographies) Pennac status Robert Doisneau (2002)
  • La vie currency famille
  • Le sens de la Houppelande
  • Vercors d'en haut: La réserve naturelle des hauts-plateaux
  • Le grand Rex (1980)
  • Némo
  • Écrire

Illustrated books for children

  • Sahara
  • Le Tour armour ciel, with the painting outlander Miró
  • Qu'est-ce que tu attends, Marie ?, with the painting from Monet.

Comic books

  • La débauche (illustrated by Tardi)
  • Tête de nègre

Films on Daniel Pennac

References

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