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Daniel Pennac

1944 - Today

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Daniel Pennac (real name Daniel Pennacchioni, born 1 December 1944 in Casablanca, French Morocco) is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay Chagrin d'école. 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 self-taught reader. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Pennac is the 1,516th most popular writer (down from 1,356th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Morocco (down from 28th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Moroccan Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Daniel Pennac ranks 1,516 out of 7,302. Before him are Thornton Wilder, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Siegfried Lenz, Fredric Jameson, Henry Steel Olcott, and Ken Kesey. After him are Rafael Alberti, Jules de Goncourt, Ichiyō Higuchi, Xavier de Maistre, Jules Laforgue, and Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Daniel Pennac ranks 155. Before him are Bernard Cornwell, Oqil Oqilov, Tony Atkinson, Mary Robinson, John Densmore, and Joseph Boakai. After him are Jürgen Grabowski, Marie-Christine Barrault, Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud, Ferenc Bene, Jan-Michael Vincent, and Ashraf Marwan.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Daniel Pennac ranks 29 out of 264. Before him are Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944), Hassan I of Morocco (1836), Abdelaziz of Morocco (1878), Frida Boccara (1940), Anne-Marie David (1952), and Al-Rashid of Morocco (1631). After him are Yusuf II, Almohad caliph (1197), Dominique de Villepin (1953), Larbi Benbarek (1914), Aziz Akhannouch (1961), Mehdi Ben Barka (1920), and Abd al-Hafid of Morocco (1875).

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Among WRITERS In Morocco

Among writers born in Morocco, Daniel Pennac ranks 3. Before him are Fatema Mernissi (1940), and Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944). After him are Mohamed Choukri (1935), Driss Chraïbi (1926), Dunash ben Labrat (920), Eva Illouz (1961), Malika Oufkir (1953), Ahmed Rami (1946), Muriel Barbery (1969), Katherine Pancol (1954), and Leïla Slimani (1981).

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