Jean Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was a French writer, playwright, and philosopher. He initially worked as a secondary-school philosophy teacher and became one of the most influential representatives of existentialism after the Second World War. His best-known works include *Being and Nothingness*, *The Flies*, *No Exit*, and *Critique of Dialectical Reason*. In 1964, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he declined. Sartre had a close, lifelong relationship with the writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir; they pursued an unconventional partnership.