Albert Camus | |
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![]() Portrait from New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, 1957 | |
Born | Dréan, El Taref, French Algeria | 7 November 1913
Died | 4 January 1960 | (aged 46)
Era | 20th century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Absurdism |
Main interests | Ethics, humanity, justice, love, politics |
Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher and writer. Camus wrote novels and plays. Camus was born in Algeria, a country in North Africa. He had French parents. Camus was an existentialist philosopher. Existentialism is a philosophy that is very different from other ways of thinking. Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
He was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, after Rudyard Kipling, and the first African-born writer to receive the award.[1] He is the shortest-lived of any Nobel literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award.
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