It is based on Léo Lévesque's collection of prison stories Contes en coup de poing.
Léo Lévesque is a Québécois poet, essayist, and writer born in Montréal.
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He spent 25 years in prison, and has written five collections of prison stories based on his experience, of which Contes en coups de poing was the basis of the 2002 movie Histoire de Pen.
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