Daniel Pennac is a French writer born in 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco.
Daniel Pennac is a French writer born in 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco.
The childhood of Daniel Pennac is a childhood made of travel (Indochina, Djibouti, Ethiopia…). His love of books was given to him by his father.
At school, he is a dunce (he tells it in Chagrin d’école) but he succeeds in obtaining a Master of Arts.
He started writing in 1973 with an essay: “Le service militaire au service de qui?
He wrote novels Les enfants de Yalta in 1978. But his greatest success is the Malaussène saga that he began in 1985.
He wrote stories for television but also for comics (La débauche, Lucky Luke, Un amour exemplaire).
The café of Amélie, the mansion of Untouchables, the jazz club of the finale of La La Land, the Hôtel du Nord of the mythical replica of Arletty “Atmosphere”, the cinema of A bout de souffle, the restaurant of Ratatouille, the quays of the Seine of Midnight in Paris, the secret places of the Da Vinci Code, the grocery store of January in La Traversée de Paris , the Bridge of Inception and Peur sur la ville, the addresses of the spectacular scenes of Mission Impossible 6, but also series Call my agent, Gears, Le Bureau des légendes, Sense8, Sex and The City, Gossip Girl…
Etienne Daho’s Café de Flore, Jay-Z and Kanye West’s hotel in Nas in Paris, Serge Gainsbourg’s Poinçonneur des Lilas metro station, Serge Reggiani and Marc Lavoine’s Mirabeau Bridge, Mc Solaar’s Lyon station…
The places evoked in the comics Adèle Blanc-Sec, Largo Winch, Blake and Mortimer, Michel Vaillant…
But also in the novels of Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Leo Malet, Daniel Pennac, Marc Levy, Guillaume Musso… you’ll find all the must-see places of Parisian Pop Culture in this new guide.
