Onfray, Michel

Biography

Born in 1959, Michel Onfray is one of the best-known French philosophers in the world (translated into 22 languages). In his books he expresses a hedonistic, ethical, political and pedagogic vision. He was awarded the Prix Médicis Essais in 1993, and one of his latest books, Traité d'athéologie (Treaty of atheology), is a best-seller (300,000 copies sold).