Glossary entry for
Camus, Albert
Albert Camus (born: November 7, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria;
died: January 4, 1960) earned a worldwide
reputation as a novelist and essayist and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957.
Through his writings, and in some measure against his will, he became the leading moral
voice of his generation during the 1950s.
Camus studied at the University of Algiers, earning a degree in philosophy. He then
relocated to Metropolitan France and took
up journalism. In 1938, he accepted a post with the left-wing newspaper Alger-Républicain
where he served alternately as sub-editor, social and political reporter, leader-writer,
and book-reviewer. After World War II broke out, Camus used his literary talents to
support the French Resistance, taking on the editorship of Combat, an important
underground paper. After the war, however, he gave up politics and journalism and
devoted himself to writing. He soon established an international reputation with such
works as The Stranger (1946), The Plague (1948), The Rebel (1954) and The Myth of
Sisyphus (1955).
Camus was killed in an automobile accident near Sens, France in 1960, and is buried in
the cemetary at Lourmarin in Provence.
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