What 1908 satirical work by the Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France describes a fictitious island of great auks that exists on the northern coast of Europe?
Penguin Island (novel) Penguin Island (novel) Penguin Island (1908; ) is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize-winning French author Anatole France. "Penguin Island" is written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk lands on the island and perceives the upright, unafraid auks as a sort of pre-Christian society of noble pagans. Mostly blind and somewhat deaf, having mistaken the animals for
École Française Anatole France year in 2007-08. The school celebrated its 10th anniversary on 3 June 2017, with the presence of then French Ambassador to Armenia "Jean-François Charpentier", and the Minister of Education and Science of Armenia "Levon Mkrtchyan". On 30 March 2018, the school was renamed after the French poet, novelist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature Anatole France, during a ceremony attended by the French Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, the Armenian Minister of Education Levon Mkrtchyan, and the French Ambassador to Armenia "Jonathan Lacôte". According to ministers Lemoyne and Mkrtchyan,