Daniel Pennac

Daniel Pennac , of his true name Daniel Pennacchioni, is a French writer born with Casablanca, with the Morocco, in 1944. It receives the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for its test Chagrin of school .

Course

After a control of letters with Nice, it enters teaching. It starts to write for the children and ends up proposing to With Happiness Ogres with the Black series. Thus Benjamin Malaussène and its friends of Belleville makes their entry in the literature.

Pennac keeps of its childhood a nostalgia of the hearth and a tenderness for the family of election. If its writings are funny and full with an unslung imagination, Pennac can also write Like a novel , a Essai of Pédagogie activates, lucid and enthusiastic. That one thinks of this sentence which could guide teacher very: “One does not force a curiosity, one wakes up it. ” The album of Cartoon the Vice , which it signed with Jacques Tardi, proves its social conscience and civic, revolted by the wild dismissal, by the situation of a Chômeur victim of a corrupted head of undertaking. Since its beginnings besides, Pennac studies and critical the institutions which deny the individual. One could say of him like his main character: “You have a rare defect, Malaussène, you sympathize. ” ( the Small Commercial one of prose ).

He writes when its personal “tribe” leaves him time of them because says he: “it is, no matter what it arrives, attachment with the other which is priority by report/ratio, for example, with the corruption of the social one!”

Works

; Autobiographical accounts

Sorrow of school (2007)

; Novels for children

Pooch-Caboche (1982)
the Eye of the wolf (1984)
Kamo: The agency Babel (1992)
the Escape from Kamo
Kamo and me
Kamo: the idea of the century

; Other novels

Father Christmas (1979), with Tudor Eliad, with Editions Grasset and Fasquelle, ISBN 2-246-00859-X
the children (1997)
the Dictator and the Hammock (2003)
Thank you (2004), which he itself interpreted with the theater.

the saga Malaussène:

With the happiness of the ogres (1985)
the Fairy rifle (1987)
the Small Commercial one of prose (1989)
Mr Malaussène (1995)
Of the Christians and the Moors (1996)
With the fruits of passion (1999)
Mr Malaussène with the theater (1996)

; Tests

Military service with the service of which? (1973)
Like a novel (1992), test, Gallimard, Folio 1995ISBN 2070388905

; Illustrated books

Summer holidays , (photographs) Daniel Pennac and Robert Doisneau (2002)
the Family life
the Direction of Houppelande
Vercors of in top: The natural reserve of the top-plates
Large Rex (1980)
Némo
To write

; Do albums for children

the Sahara
the Turn of the sky on the tables of Miro
What you wait, Marie? on the tables of Monet.

; Cartoons

the Vice (drawings of Tardi).

Price

Price Renaudot in 2007 for Sorrow of school .
Price of the Book Inter in 1990 for the small commercial one of prose .

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