Albert Camus
French writer and philosopher (1913 to 1960); The Stranger, The Plague; Nobel 1957.
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- Albert Camus was a French philosopher, writer and political activist, born in French Algeria.
- His works include The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague, The Rebel and The Fall.
- He won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at 44.
- His thinking is linked to absurdism, though he rejected the label existentialist.
Key facts
- Born
- 7 November 1913, Mondovi (now Dréan), French Algeria1
- Died
- 4 January 1960, in a car crash near Sens, France, aged 461
- Works
- The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus (1942); The Plague (1947); The Rebel (1951); The Fall (1956)1
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature (1957)1
- War
- In the French Resistance, editor-in-chief of the outlawed newspaper Combat1
- Education
- Philosophy, University of Algiers1
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