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Albert Camus
AuthorBooks · Second hand1913-1960
Algerian-born French novelist, essayist and philosopher, Nobel laureate in Literature 1957, author of The Stranger, The Plague and The Myth of Sisyphus.
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Birth
1913
Death
1960
First book
1937
Years writing
89
He was born in Mondovi in French Algeria into a very poor family and lost his father at the Battle of the Marne when only a few months old.
He edited the underground newspaper Combat during the German occupation of France.
He won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at 44, becoming the second-youngest laureate in its history.
He died in a car accident in 1960; the unfinished manuscript of The First Man was found in the car.
In his youth he was the goalkeeper of Racing Universitaire d'Alger before tuberculosis ended his sporting career.