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Albert Camus By Jeremy W Albert Camus was born in 1913 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1957. The Nobel prize Organization said Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel prize, "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times(NP.org)". He was important in literary production because he was a journalist, then reporter, but his most famous things that he wrote and what he is noticed for was about his idea that it is impossible to make rational sense of one’s experience, and human life is made meaningless by mortality. The most famous part of literature that he wrote was The Stranger. Jean Paul Sarte By Jeremy W Jean Paul Sarte was born in Paris in 1905 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964. Jean Paul Sarte was a philosopher like Albert Camus and people say the two were ,” a philosopher and author who held similar beliefs. Sartre and Beauvoir remained friends with Camus until he turned away from communism, a schism that eventually divided them in 1951, after the publication of Camus. The two Albert Camus and Jean Paul shared some beliefs together and they both had their differences. Camus got his Nobel Prize by the Novel The Stranger but Sarte got his Nobel Prize in literature but he declined it. He was awarded the Nobel Prize "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age (NP.org)". Existentialism and Humanism was a lecture that he gave and it was his most popular lecture. He will be remembered for all of his ideas and all of his work.

Martin Heidegger By Jeremy W Martin Heidegger was born on Septmeber 26th, 1889. Heidegger was a German philosopher and he was known for his existential and phenomenological. His best known book is the Being and Time. His book is said to be, “One of the most important philosophical works of the 20th Century(wiki)” His work is some of the best but many still criticize him for his involvement with Nazism and his support of Adolf Hitler. He will always be remembered and his work will live on forever. From 1925 to 1959 he wrote 11 different articles/books. The person may die but his words will live on.

(NP.org) http://nobelprize.org/ (NP.org) Albert Camus http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1957/camus-bio.html (NP.org) Jean Paul Sarte http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1964/sartre-bio.html (wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger

Soren Kierkegaard By Miguel L. Born on May 15 1813, he was born in the Danish Capital. He is one of six children. From birth he was taught fate and he was strictly Lutheran from birth. Many people said he followed after his father with having intelligence, imagination, spirituality. Soren started at the university of Copenhagen in 1830, which lead to Kierkegaard becoming a Danish Philosopher, theologian, and psychologist. He is known as the "father of existentialism'' (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). He lived a "uneventful life", he studied abroad only five times very rarely traveling outside of his hometown. He is best known for his contributions to the development of modernism, his literary elements, his recreation of biblical terms brought to the modern eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

By Miguel L. Nietzsche was Born on Oct. 15, 1844. He was a great 19th century German philosopher and a philologist, which is the humanistic study of linguistics. He was a author who wrote about religion and morality, in his writings he used a lot of metaphors, irony and aphorism. His writing went passed philosophy they could be seen as influencers very much so in existentialism and post modernism. Nietzsche’s style of questioning the truth have resulted in a change of perspective and giving people a different way to look at things. In 1889 he went insane living with this mother and sister until he died in 1900.