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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre was a philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps modernes . Born in Paris in 1905, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 - and turned it down. His books include Nausea , Intimacy , The Flies , No Exit , The Freud Scenario , War Diaries , Critique of Dialectical Reason , and the monumental treatise Being and Nothingness . He died in 1980.