Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel L'Étranger (The Stranger).
In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award.
He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
Albert Camus
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French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
Born | 7 November 1913 |
Died | 4 January 1960 |
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Albert Camus
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French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
Born | 7 November 1913 |
Died | 4 January 1960 |
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Fiction, Literature, meaning of love, selfhood, freedom, short story, History, Collections, self-fulfilment, Translations into English, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), French literature, American Civil War, Classic Literature, Confederate States of America, Juvenile audience, Union, civil war, hanging, French Authors, Romance literature, Drama, Imagination, Short stories, Juvenile fictionPlaces
Mallard residence, Alabama, France, Owl Creek Bridge, United States, Algeria, Amazon rainforest, Caribbean, Louisiana, L’Abri, Ship-Trap Island, Tibet, Paris, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Araby, Araby bazaar, Ireland, Israel, North Richmond Street, Oran (Algeria), America, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Europe, GalwayPeople
Albert Camus (1913-1960), Brently Mallard, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Richards, Peyton Farquhar, Caligula Emperor of Rome (12-41), Armand Aubigny, Désirée, General Zaroff, Ivan, La Blanche, Sandrine, Sanger Rainsford, The Great White Czar, Whitney, Madame Valmont, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, Mangan's sister, Bartell D'Arcy, Bartleby, Cicero, Colonel Sartoris, Emily Grierson, Franz Kafka (1883-1924)Time
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- OLID: OL124171A
- Amazon ID: B000AQ541E
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- ISNI: 0000000122832690
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- VIAF: 97000332
- Wikidata: Q34670
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