Albert Camus

1913 – 1960

Albert Camus was a French-Algerian philosopher, novelist, and journalist who at age 44 received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature, the second-youngest laureate in the prize's history and the first born in Africa. His novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), the philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), and the political work The Rebel (1951) made him one of the central figures in the literary and philosophical movement that became known as absurdism. He died at age 46 in a car crash in January 1960.

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