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The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir, 1956, Fourth Printing Pied Piper Books But every time he tried**Who wrote it** The Mandarins was written by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Leonard M. Friedman, and published by the World Publishing Company in 1956. Originally published in France by Librairie Gallimard as Les Mandarins, the novel won the Prix Goncourt in 1954. This is the fourth printing. **What it's about** A novel about the Parisian intellectual left in the aftermath of World War II, following a group of writers, philosophers, and activists