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Daniel Pennac was born in Casablanca in 1944 and is today considered one of the most important and popular authors in French literature.
His novels about the Malaussène family (Au Bonheur des Ogres, La Fée Carabine, La Petite Marchande de Prose, Monsieur Malaussène and Aux Fruits de la Passion) brought him enormous international success, which he also experienced with Like a Novel, an essay on reading that became a cult book.
School Disappointments It won the Renaudot Prize in 2007, after spending more than 50 weeks on the French bestseller lists. Translated into 24 languages, it sold over 800,000 copies in France alone.
In 2008, Daniel Pennac received the Metropolis Bleu Prize for his body of work, a prize previously awarded to writers such as Margaret Atwood, Carlos Fuentes, Paul Auster, and Norman Mailer.