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Novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France

"Pagnol" redirects here. For other uses, see Pagnol (disambiguation).

Marcel Paul Pagnol (, alsopah-NYAWL;^[1]French:[maʁsɛlpɔlpaɲɔl]; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker.

Regarded as an auteur,^[2] in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every medium—memoir, novel, drama and film.

Early life

Pagnol was born on 28 February 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône department, in southern France near Marseille, the eldest son of schoolteacher Joseph Pagnol^A and seamstress Augustine Lansot.^B[3] He was secretly baptised at the Église Saint-Charles in Marseilles.^[4] Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul and René, and younger sister