Which French existentialist philosopher and writer, life partner of Simone de Beauvoir, wrote Nausea and Being and Nothingness?

• A Jean-Paul Sartre ✓
• B Albert Camus
• C Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• D Georges Bataille

Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, saying a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.