Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton, FRSL (; born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British philosopher and author. 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).
Alain Borer
Alain Borer is also a novelist ("Koba", Seuil, collection "Fiction & Cie"), art critic ("Dürer", 1980, Chambord, Monum, Hugo Pratt, Casterman), particularly on Joseph Beuys ("Joseph Beuys", published by the Centre Pompidou, 1994, and La Bibliothèque des Arts, Lausanne, 2001), essayist ("Saint-Martin ou la coupabilité", musée de Tours), playwright ("Paul des oiseaux", "Le Chant du Rien visible", "Fourbis", "Le Quadrige invectif", "Le cercle d'art", 2005, assembled together in "Icare & I don't", Seuil, 2007), and world traveler and travel-writer (Sarajevo, Gallimard, Liberia, Michalon, Los Angeles, Phébus, Pacific Palisades; with a work on the Pacific Palisades due to be published by Seuil).