caption death_date death_place influenced era birth_place school_tradition influences main_interests name birth_date image article_title birth_name region
caricature of emil cioran 21 june 1995 paris , france thomas ligotti 20th-century philosophy rășinari , austro-hungary -lrb- today romania -rrb- philosophical pessimism , existentialism immanuel joseph de maistre , martin heidegger , ludwig klages , kant georg simmel , oswald spengler , nae ionescu , arthur schopenhauer , friedrich nietzsche , suicide , nihilism , ethics , literature emil mihai cioran 8 april 1911 emil cioran , filósofo y escritor.jpg emil cioran
 emil mihai cioran western philosophy
emil cioran

emil michel cioran -lrb- ; 8 april 1911 -- 20 june 1995 -rrb- was a romanian philosopher and essayist , who published works in both romanian and french .
cioran was born in rășinari , sibiu county , which was part of austria-hungary at the time .
his first french book , `` a short history of decay '' , was awarded the prestigious rivarol prize in 1950 .
it was the only book for which he accepted an award given to him , claiming that it would have been insolent of him to refuse it .
the latin quarter of paris was his permanent residence and he lived much of his life in isolation with his partner simone boué .
