Philosopher · Twentieth century · Algeria
Albert Camus
1913–1960
Algerian born French writer who made the absurd, the clash between our hunger for meaning and a silent world, the theme of his work. The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus appeared in 1942. Nobel Prize 1957; he died in a car crash in 1960.
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- Born
- 1913, Mondovi, Algeria.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Albert Camus
- Died
- 1960, near Sens, France, in a car crash.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Albert Camus
- School
- The absurd; he refused the existentialist label.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Albert Camus
- Known for
- The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel, and the Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Albert Camus
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