
Swiss-born British philosopher and writer
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Alain de Botton FRSL (/də ˈbɒtən/; born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British author and public speaker. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He published Essays in Love (1993), which went on to sell two million copies. Other bestsellers include How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997), Status Anxiety (2004), and The Architecture of Happiness (2006).
He co-founded The School of Life in 2008 and Living Architecture in 2009. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2011. In 2015, he was awarded "The Fellowship of Schopenhauer", an annual writers' award from the Melbourne Writers Festival, for that work.
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Alain de Botton, writer, was born on 20 December 1969 in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the only son of financier Gilbert de Botton and his first wife, Jacqueline Burgauer. He has one sister named Miele. Alain spent the first twelve years of his life in Switzerland, where he learned to speak French and German. His family later moved to London, where he completed his education. He took a double starred first in history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1988-1990) and completed his masters deg
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