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 décole 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 selftaught reader His childhood was spent wherever his father was stationed in Africa Djibouti Ethiopia Algeria Equatorial Africa Southeast Asia Indochina and France including La CollesurLoup His fathers 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 Malaussènes youngest brother Le Petit was the son of Jerome Charyns 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 Lœil 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 Childrens 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 décole 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 CCBYSA 30