Albert Camus was a French-Algerian playwright, novelist, and Nobel laureate. Camus was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature.
Camus was born on 7th November 1913, in French Algeria. He studied at the University of Algiers.
While living in occupied France during World War II, he became active in the Resistance movement. He was a very active theatre producer and playwright.
By mid-century, he became a renowned writer, and had a worldwide readership. His three most important novels are ‘The Stranger’, ‘The Plague’, and ‘The Fall’. He authored two book-length philosophical essays ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’, and ‘The Rebel’, which received much appreciation too. He was often credited as being a proponent of existentialism.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 for his literary production, which illuminates the problems of the human conscience. Camus died on 4th January 1960, in a car accident.
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