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Albert Camus
1913-1960
Birth
Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. His childhood was poor, although not unhappy.
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He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers and became a journalist. He played football and organised avant-garde drama.
First publications
He had published essays before moving to Paris, and working on the newspaper Paris Soir before returning to Algeria. His first two important books, The Outsider and The Myth of Sisyphus, were published upon returning to Paris.
Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus
Resistance
After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus was a member of the Resistance. He contributed to the underground newspaper Combat, which he had helped to found.
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Existentialism
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Existentialists
Existentialists
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Success
After the war he devoted himself to writing and established an international reputation with such books as The Plague (1947), The Just (1949) and The Fall (1956).
Camus Sartre Split
Friends Sartre and Camus, influential in shaping French leftist thought after WWII, would fall out over the need for revolutionary violence.
Death
Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, but died three years later in a car accident.