Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir’s works had probably kept her extremely busy that dating and getting married were her least priority. However, the ceremony is just the one she didn’t have, considering that she had a relationship with French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre for over 50 years. For the younger generation, Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist, born on January 9, 1908, in Paris. She received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Paris.

As a writer, she’s known for her novels, She Came to Play and The Mandarins, among others. Because of her excellence in her works, she received multiple awards and credits, including the 1975 Jerusalem Prize, the 1978 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 1954 Prix Goncourt.