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Simone de Beauvoir

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Beauvoir, Simone de
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Date of birth
1908-01-09
Place of birth
Paris
Date of death
1986-04-14
Place of death
Paris

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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (UK: , US: ; French: [simɔn bovwaʁ] ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, autobiographies, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She was best known for her "trailblazing work in feminist philosophy", The Second Sex (1949), a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. She was also known for her novels, the most famous of which were She Came to Stay (1943) and The Mandarins (1954).

Her most enduring contribution to literature are her memoirs, notably the first volume, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (1958). She received the 1954 Prix Goncourt, the 1975 Jerusalem Prize, and the 1978 Austrian State Prize for European Literature. She was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961, 1969 and 1973. However, Beauvoir generated controversy when she briefly lost her teaching job after being accused of sexually abusing some of her students. She and her long-time lover, Jean-Paul Sartre, along with numerous other French intellectuals, campaigned for the release of people convicted of child sex offenses and signed a petition which advocated the abolition of age of consent laws in France.

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French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist.

Last modified: 2020-10-22 (revision #35490)

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NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Toinen sukupuoli 1 & 2Paperback978-952-04-2965-2?
Die Mandarins von Paris (drawn heads-cover)Paperback?1969-04
Alle Menschen sind sterblichPaperback978-3-499-11302-42017-04
Der Lauf der DingePaperback978-3-499-11250-81970
Memoiren einer Tochter aus gutem HausePaperback3-499-11066-01978-11
Die Mandarins von Paris (Black and white photo cover)Paperback3-499-10761-91991-09
Das Blut der anderen (rororo 545)Paperback3-499-10545-41987-04
Marcelle, Chantal, Lisa…: Ein Roman in ErzählungenPaperback978-3-499-14755-51981
Die Welt der schönen BilderPaperback3-499-11433-X1986-04
Eine gebrochene FrauPaperback3-499-11489-51984-07
Sie kam und blieb (brown cover)Paperback3-499-11310-41972-05
Das Blut der anderen (rororo 10545)Paperback3-499-10545-41998-03
Das AlterPaperback3-499-17095-71983-03
Das andere Geschlecht: Sitte und Sexus der Frau (text only cover)Paperback3-499-16621-61968
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Goodreads Author ID
5548
ISNI
0000 0003 6866 165X
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beauvoirsimonede
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL63285A
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2466221
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Q7197

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