Jean-Paul Sartre
June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980
French philosopher and writer, the leading figure of existentialism; declined the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Biography
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, novelist and playwright and the leading figure of existentialism. His novel Nausea (1938) and his major philosophical work Being and Nothingness (1943) argue that people are free and responsible for what they make of themselves.
He served in the French army, was a prisoner of war in 1940-41, and after the war founded the journal Les Temps modernes with Simone de Beauvoir and others. His plays include No Exit and Dirty Hands.
Sartre took public positions on the left, supported Algerian independence and opposed the Vietnam War. He declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964. His funeral in Paris in 1980 drew tens of thousands of people.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
