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Albert Camus (/ k æ m ˈ uː / [2] kam-OO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, [3] and political activist.
Albert Camus was a French novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for such novels as The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), and The Fall (1956) and for his work in leftist causes. He also wrote the influential philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus (1942).
Oct 27, 2011 · Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a journalist, editor and editorialist, playwright and director, novelist and author of short stories, political essayist and activist—and, although he more than once denied it, a philosopher.
Aug 8, 2023 · Albert Camus was a French Algerian writer best known for his absurdist works, including 'The Stranger' and 'The Plague.' He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
A lbert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work.
Albert Camus was a French-Algerian journalist, playwright, novelist, philosophical essayist, and Nobel laureate. Though he was neither by advanced training nor profession a philosopher, he nevertheless made important, forceful contributions to a wide range of issues in moral philosophy in his novels, reviews, articles, essays, and speeches ...
May 28, 2022 · In March 1946, the French philosopher and novelist Albert Camus sailed across the Atlantic to deliver a speech at Columbia University. It was his first and only trip to America.
Albert Camus. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957. Born: 7 November 1913, Mondovi, French Algeria (now Algeria) Died: 4 January 1960, Sens, France. Residence at the time of the award: France.
As novelist and playwright, moralist and political theorist, Albert Camus after World War II became the spokesman of his own generation and the mentor of the next, not only in France but also in Europe and eventually the world.
Apr 30, 2020 · Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) was a French-Algerian writer, dramatist, and moralist. He was known for his prolific philosophical essays and novels and is considered one of the forefathers of the existentialist movement, even though he rejected the label.