Café littéraire

2pm Centre Social Saint Exupéry.
Daniel Pennac, born on 1 December 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco, is a French writer. As an adult, he worked as a taxi driver and illustrator, before becoming a secondary school literature teacher in 1969. He was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his autobiographical novel Chagrin d'école.

Theme: Devalued, scorned, some now murdered... teachers write novels about teaching:
- Daniel Pennac: Chagrin d'école; Comme un roman - Sébastien Berlendis: Des saisons adolescentes - François Bégaudeau: Entre les murs - Jean-Philippe Blondel: G229; La grande escapade - Jeanne Benameur: Présent? - Rachel Boutonnet: Journal d'une institutrice clandestine - Jean-Paul Brighelli: La fabrique du crétin - Emmanuelle Delacompté: Molière à la campagne - Paul Guth: Le naïf aux quarante enfants - Heinrich Mann: Professeur Unrat - Marcel Pagnol: Topaze (theatre), etc.