1957 Nobel Prize in Literature

1957 Nobel Prize in Literature
Albert Camus
"for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times."
Date	17 October 1957 (announcement) 10 December 1957 (ceremony)
Location	Stockholm
Country	Sweden
Presented by	Swedish Academy
First awarded	1901
Website	Official website
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The 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the French writer Albert Camus (1913–1960) "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times."^[1] He is the ninth French author to become a recipient of the prize after Catholic novelist François Mauriac in 1952, and the fourth philosopher after British analytic philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1950.

Aged 44 when he received the prize, Camus is the second youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, after only Rudyard Kipling (41).^[2]