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23 November 2011

Alain de Botton, 1969 -


Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London. He aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life.

He is a writer of essayistic books, which refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'

His first book, Essays in Love [titled On Love in the US], minutely analysed the process of falling in and out of love. The style of the book was unusual, because it mixed elements of a novel together with reflections and analyses normally found in a piece of non-fiction.

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