Albert Camus
French philosopher, writer and journalist
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, writer and journalist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel.
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French Born 1913 in Dréan, Algeria Died 1960
Influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche
About Albert Camus
Camus was born in French Algeria in 1913 to a pied-noir family and studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. During World War II he joined the French Resistance and served as editor-in-chief of the outlawed newspaper Combat. His views contributed to the rise of absurdism, though he rejected the label of existentialist throughout his life. In The Myth of Sisyphus, published in 1942, he set out his idea of accepting the absurd. The Stranger, also from 1942, centers on the character Meursault. In The Rebel, Camus wrote that he had devoted his whole life to opposing nihilism. He died in a car accident in 1960, at the age of 46.