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Albert Camus
Last updated: October 17, 2017
Albert Camus (b. Algeria 1913, d. France 1960) wrote as he lived, with fierce commitment to his ideals. A passionate defender of justice and humanism, this remarkable figure of the French Resistance created a body of work infused with his rebellious spirit and questioning the nature of existence, action and engagement. Recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, he bore witness to a turbulent century not only in his diary (Combat), his essays (The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt), his novels (The Stranger, The Plague) and his short stories (Exile and the Kingdom), but in his highly political plays (Caligula, The Just Assassins).