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Albert Camus
1913-1960
Who Was Albert Camus?
Albert Camus became known for his political journalism, novels and essays during the 1940s.
His best-known works, including The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), are exemplars of absurdism.
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Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 and died on January 4, 1960, in Burgundy, France.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Albert Camus
BORN: November 7, 1913
DIED: January 4, 1960
BIRTHPLACE: Mondavi, Algeria
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Scorpio
Early Life
Camus was born on November 7, 1913, in Mondavi, French Algeria.
His pied-noir family had little money. Camus' father died in combat during World War I, after which Camus lived with his mother, who was partially deaf, in a low-income section of Algiers.
Camus did well in school and was admitted to the University of Algiers, where he studied philosophy and played goalie for the soccer team.
He quit the team following a bout of tuberculosis in 1930, thereafter focusing on academic