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Posted by Tel Asiado Apr 16, 2008 |
Great Thinkers Datebook: April 16.
Anatole France (1844-1924), one of the most popular French writers of the 20th century, was born April 16, 1844. His real name was Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault. France achieved recognition with the novels The Crime of sylvester Bonnard and Thais.Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature, Anatole France wrote mostly historical and social novels.
France supported Zola in the Dreyfus affair, and his writing became increasingly political as in the novels Contemporary History and Penguin Island, a fantasy novel he is best remembered for which is about the epic history of an imaginary penguin civilization.
Here's a link to Anatole France's brief biography.
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