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Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, writer, and Nobel laureate known for his contributions to existentialism and absurdism.

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Known for: French philosopher and writer known for existentialist and absurdist works like The Stranger and The Plague
Listed under: Nobel Laureates

About Albert Camus

His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at Combat, an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many lectures around the world. He married twice but had many extramarital affairs. Camus was politically active; he was part of the left that opposed Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union because of their totalitarianism. Camus was a moralist and leaned towards anarcho-syndicalism. He was part of many organisations seeking European integration. Philosophically, Camus's views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. Some consider Camus's work to show him to be an existentialist, even though he himself firmly rejected the term throughout his lifetime.

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