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Albert Camus

1913 - 1960

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Albert Camus ( ka-MOO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel. Camus was born in French Algeria to pied-noir parents. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Camus is the 23rd most popular writer (down from 18th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Algeria and the most popular Algerian Writer.

Albert Camus is most famous for his philosophy of existentialism, which he developed in his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus." In this essay, Camus argues that the meaninglessness of life can be countered by living in a way that acknowledges this meaninglessness and still finds meaning in life.

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Among writers, Albert Camus ranks 23 out of 7,302. Before him are Molière, Miguel de Cervantes, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. S. Eliot, Ovid, and Alexandre Dumas. After him are Hesiod, Anton Chekhov, Rumi, Petrarch, Honoré de Balzac, and Aesop.

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Among people born in 1913, Albert Camus ranks 1. After him are Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Willy Brandt, Rosa Parks, Vivien Leigh, Menachem Begin, Jean Marais, Robert Capa, Burt Lancaster, Klaus Barbie, and Claude Simon. Among people deceased in 1960, Albert Camus ranks 1. After him are Boris Pasternak, Max von Laue, Clark Gable, Erich Raeder, Albert Kesselring, Amanullah Khan, Wilhelm Pieck, Melanie Klein, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Paula Hitler, and Walther Funk.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Albert Camus ranks 2 out of 213. Before him are Augustine of Hippo (354). After him are Macrinus (164), Apuleius (125), Tariq ibn Ziyad (670), Jacques Derrida (1930), Yves Saint Laurent (1936), Jugurtha (-160), Saint Monica (332), Louis Althusser (1918), Édouard-Henri Avril (1849), and Ahmed Ben Bella (1916).

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Among writers born in Algeria, Albert Camus ranks 1. After him are Apuleius (125), Hélène Cixous (1937), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Assia Djebar (1936), Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Robert Merle (1908), Boualem Sansal (1949), Kateb Yacine (1929), Al-Busiri (1213), Isaac Alfasi (1013), and Mohammed Dib (1920).

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