Albert Camus

Albert Camus was born in 1913 in Mondovi, in French Algeria. His father was killed in the First World War, and he grew up poor in Algiers with his mother, who was partly deaf and could not read. A teacher helped him win a scholarship, and he went on to study philosophy at the University of Algiers, where he also played goalkeeper until tuberculosis ended his playing. He worked as a journalist and in the theater, and in 1942 he published the novel The Stranger and the essay The Myth of Sisyphus, which explored what he called the absurd. During the German occupation of France he edited Combat, a newspaper of the French Resistance. His novel The Plague (1947) tells of an epidemic in the Algerian city of Oran. Later works include The Rebel and The Fall. In 1957 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in a car accident in France in 1960, at the age of 46.

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Faith: Did not hold religious faith; he studied Christian thought but rejected it, holding that nothing lies beyond this life. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy