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Albert Camus

1913–1960 · 20th century

Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a French writer and philosopher born in Algeria to a poor settler family. His novels The Stranger and The Plague, both set in Algeria, and his essay The Myth of Sisyphus made him a leading figure of post-war literature, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. During the Algerian War he called for a civilian truce and opposed both FLN terrorism and French repression.

Albert Camus
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