Daniel Pennac

Daniel Pennac

Daniel Pennac , actually Daniel Pennacchioni (born December 1, 1944 in Casablanca , Morocco ) is a French writer.

Life

Pennac spent his childhood in Africa and Asia. After studying literature in Nice , Pennac worked and lived as a teacher in the Paris district of Belleville, where he is still based today. In 1973 he published his first work Le service militaire au service de qui? , a book critical of the military. In order not to harm the military career of his father, who worked for the French army, he shortened his real name Pennachioni and wrote under the pseudonym Pennac.

In 1985 Au Bonheur des ogres ( Paradise of the Monsters ) was published, the first detective novel about the professional, notorious "scapegoat" and leisure detective Benjamin Malaussène. Due to the success, the sequels La fée carabine (1987, When old ladies shoot ) and La petite marchande en prose (1989, German scapegoat in the book jungle ) followed shortly thereafter , as well as Monsieur Malaussène (1995, German Monsieur Malaussène ), some distance behind . Des Chrétiens et des Maures (1996, German temporarily immortal ), Aux fruits de la passion (1998, German nobility destroyed ) and finally in 2003 Le dictateur et le hamac ( The dictator and the hammock ).

Pennac achieved another success with its children's books, especially with the book series about the little adventurer Kamo. Pennac also dealt with the art of novel writing: In 1992 he published another of his works, Comme un roman ( Like a novel ), in which he takes the side of the reader and claims his rights on ten points. These rights range from the right not to read, to the right to repeat reading, to the right to read in private.

His comic Débauche ( Eng . "Downward"), which he wrote together with Jacques Tardi , deals with the topic of unemployment. With the Prix ​​Renaudot , Pennac received one of the most important French literary prizes in 2007 .

Occasionally Pennac also works as a screenwriter , such as the cartoon Ernest & Célestine , published in 2012 .

In the presidential elections of 2002 he was in the shadow cabinet of the humorist Dieudonné .

Pennac was the patron and sponsor of the Prix ​​Monte-Cristo , which was awarded for the first time in 2019 and is awarded by a jury made up of prison inmates. Pennac had previously held workshops for aspiring writers in a prison in Toulouse .

style

In the late 1980s, Pennac established itself on the French contemporary bestseller lists and won several literary prizes. Pennac was described by Sabine Janssen as a new storyteller and an author with a future. Pennac's literary talent is said to have an interesting spelling as well as numerous literary relationships to renowned authors.

Pennac's works usually progress at a rapid narrative pace, are designed to be quite complex and usually appear quite confused on first reading: Several storylines, in which different people and characters are involved, play out in parallel and convey countless topics to the reader. Although such a multitude of topics are virtually ubiquitous, the reader can still untangle them, as the highly schematic genre that generally appears in Pennac's works has an extremely unifying effect, thus holding the narrative together and propelling it forward. Furthermore, Pennac knows how to reflect language and literature in his novels in a variety of ways: On a concrete linguistic level, he creates intertextual references between the criminal literary concept, for example, and the resulting representations of the characters.

Work (selection)

The Malaussène novels

• Au bonheur des ogres (1985)
  • Paradise of the Monsters , German by Wolfgang Rentz; Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1989. ISBN 978-3-499-42922-4
• La fée carabine (1987)
  • When old ladies shoot ... by Wolfgang Rentz; Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990. ISBN 978-3-499-42921-7
• La petite marchande de prose (1989)
  • King Zabo's scapegoat ; German by Wolfgang Rentz; Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990. ISBN 978-3-499-43003-9
  • also as: scapegoat in the book jungle , same translation; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2003. ISBN 978-3-462-03337-3
• Monsieur Malaussène (1995)
  • Monsieur Malaussène , German by Eveline Passet; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1997. ISBN 978-3-462-02611-5
• Des Chrétiens et des maures (1996)
  • Temporarily immortal , German by Eveline Passet; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2000. ISBN 978-3-462-02953-6
• Aux fruits de la passion (1999)
  • Nobility destroyed , German by Eveline Passet; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2000. ISBN 978-3-462-02931-4
• Le cas Malaussène - Ils m´ont menti (2017)
  • The Malaussène case - you betrayed me, by Eveline Passet; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2019. ISBN 978-3-462-05125-4

Other novels

• Les Enfants de Yalta (with Tudor Eliad / 1978)
• Père Noël (with Tudor Eliad / 1979)
• La vie duraille (with Jean-Bernard Pouy and Patrick Raynal / 1985)
  • Power games , German by Stefan Linster; Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990. ISBN 978-3-499-42961-3
• Messieurs les enfants (1997)
  • Big children, small parents , German by Eveline Passet; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1999. ISBN 978-3-462-02804-1
• Le Dictateur et le hamac (2003)
  • The dictator and the hammock , German by Eveline Passet; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2005. ISBN 978-3-462-03453-0
• Chagrin d'école (2007)
  • Schulkummer , German by Eveline Passet; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2009. ISBN 978-3-462-04072-2
• Journal D'un Corps (2012)
  • The body of my life , German by Eveline Passet; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2014. ISBN 978-3-462-04619-9

Non-fiction

• Le service militaire au service de qui? (1973), published under his real name Daniel Pennachioni, Essai.
• Comme un roman (1992)
  • Like a novel by Uli Aumüller; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1994. ISBN 978-3-462-02363-3
• Gardiens et Passeurs (2000)
• Mon frère (2018)

Children's books

• Cabot-Caboche (1982)
  • The dog and the girl , German by Susanne Bauer and Almuth Piene; Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1996. ISBN 978-3-440-06960-8
• L'œil du loup (1984)
• Kamo: L'agence Babel (1992)
  • in: Kamos Collected Adventures , German by Wolfgang Rentz; Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 2000. ISBN 978-3-407-79811-4
• L'Évasion de Kamo
  • in: Kamo's Collected Adventures
• Kamo et moi
  • in: Kamo's Collected Adventures
• Kamo: L'idée du siècle
  • in: Kamo's Collected Adventures
• Sahara (1998)
  • Sahara
• Le tour du ciel
• Qu'est-ce que tu attends, Marie?

Illustrated books

• Le grand rex (1980)
• Les grandes vacances , (photographies) Pennac and Robert Doisneau (1991)
• Le sens de la Houppelande
• La vie de famille
• Vercors d'en haut: La reserve naturelle des hauts-plateaux
• Némo
• Écrire

comics

• Lucky Luke versus Pinkerton (2010); Text in collaboration with Tonino Benacquista , drawings by Achdé
  • Lucky Luke versus Pinkerton , German by Klaus Jöken; Egmont, Berlin / Cologne 2014. ISBN 978-3-7704-3820-4
• Cavalier seul (2012)
• La Débauche (2000), drawings by Tardi
  • Downward , German by Eveline Passet; Ed. Moderne, Zurich 2000. ISBN 978-3-907055-40-3
• Un amour exemplaire , (2015), drawings by Florence Cestac

Film adaptations

• 1987: The old fairy ( La fée carabine )
• 2013: Au bonheur des ogres

Radio plays

• "The fairy with the rifle" (WDR 1997, director: Leonhard Koppelmann )
• "The Malaussène Trilogy Part 1: Paradise of Monsters" (SWR 2015, Director: Philippe Bruehl)
• "The Malaussène Trilogy Part 2: When Old Ladies Shoot" (SWR 2015, Director: Philippe Bruehl)
• "The Malaussène Trilogy Part 3: Scapegoat in the Book Jungle" (SWR 2015, Director: Philippe Bruehl)

Awards

• 1988: Prix ​​Mystère de la critique for When old ladies shoot ( La Fée carabine )
• 1990: Prix ​​du Livre Inter for La petite marchande de prose ;
• 2007: Prix ​​Renaudot for Chagrin d'école
• 2008: Grand Prix Metropolis bleu for the entire work

literature

• Sabine Janssen: Comme un roman policier: Daniel Pennac's Malaussène series as a variant of the detective novel , in: Dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Literature at the Gerhard Mercator University - Comprehensive University Duisburg 2001
• Günther Berger: Daniel Pennac, Au bonheur des ogres (1985), in: The novel in the Romania: new tendencies after 1945 , Tübingen: Narr, 2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel Pennac in the catalog of the German National Library
• Daniel Pennac in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Günter Berger: Daniel Pennac, Au bonheur des ogres (1985) , in: The novel in the Romania: new tendencies after 1945 , Tübingen: Narr, 2005, pp. 112–124, here p. 112. (also available online) .
2. ↑ France's Prix Monte-Cristo's Inmate Jury Awards Its First Honor , article by Olivia Snaije from May 14, 2019 in Publishing Perspectives , accessed on July 27, 2019.
3. ↑ Sabine Janssen: Comme un roman policier: Dniel Pennac's Malaussène series as a variant of the detective novel , in: Dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Literature at the Gerhard Mercator University - Comprehensive University Duisburg (2001) , here p. 4
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Sabine Janssen: Comme un roman policier: Dniel Pennac's Malaussène series as a variant of the detective novel , in: Dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Literature at the Gerhard Mercator University - Comprehensive University Duisburg ( 2001) , here p. 5
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