| Christina Aziz |
French philosopher, playwright, and novelist born on 21 June 1905, in Paris, France to a bourgeoise family. His father died when he was two years old, so his mother raised him with the help of her father. He joined the University of Paris in 1924, and in 1929, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who became his life-long lover. He was inspired by Franz Kafka, so he wrote many philosophical works at the time. He was imprisoned in 1940 for a year, and then he joined the French army during World War II. He established Les Temps modernes in 1945 with Simone de Beauvoir and André Malraux. He had affiliations with the Marxist party. Since he was against Colonialism, he supported the fleeing soldiers during the Algerian War. He rejected the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, which he was awarded. From his publications, “The Transcendence of the Ego” (1936), “Dirty Hands” (1948), and “Being and Nothingness” (1943). He died on 15 April 1980, Paris, France.
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