Chagrin d'école

Daniel Pennac (born Daniel Pennacchioni, December 1, 1944, in Casablanca, French Morocco) is a French author renowned for his Malaussène Saga crime novels featuring Benjamin Malaussène, including Au bonheur des ogres (1985), La fée carabine (1987), and La petite marchande de prose (1989), as well as essays like Comme un roman (1992) and Chagrin d'école (2007), the latter earning him the Prix Renaudot. He has received numerous accolades, such as the Prix du Livre Inter (1990), Grinzane Cavour Prize (2002), Grand Prix Metropolis bleu (2008), and Raymond Chandler Award (2023), and remains active as of 2023 with recent publications like Terminus Malaussène.com