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Albert Camus

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Activist
	Area of activism	Anti-death penalty


Notable author of a literary movement
	Literary movement	Existentialism


Dedicator
	Dedications	Théâtre de l’Équipe (Caligula)


Person
	Spouse (or domestic partner)	Francine Faure (1940-12-03, Marriage, Lyon) Simone Hie (1934, Marriage)
	Parents	Lucien
	Education	University of Algiers
	Profession	Journalist Novelist Philosopher
	Quotations	A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. Show 112 more Even more Hide
	Ethnicity	French people
	Date of birth	1913-11-07
	Place of birth	Drean
	Country of nationality	Algeria France
	Religion	Atheism
	Gender	Male


KWTopic
	KWType	Person
	Assessment	Albert Camus was an important mid-century writer whose works explored nihilism, existentialism, and absolutism, while at the same time insisting upon an adherence to moral principles and the artist's engagement with the world and the struggles of humanity
	Category	literature
	Disciplines	author
	Connections to	fyodor mikhaylovich dostoyevsky influenced albert camus (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, influenced) andre malraux was friends with albert camus (André Malraux)
	Has sentences	Camus was born into a poor working class family in Algiers, Algeria. (Details) When he was only a year old, his father, a laborer, died fighting in World War One. (Details) He was raised by his illiterate and partially deaf mother and his grandmother. (Details) Show 21 more Even more Hide


Nobel Prize Winner
	Nobel Honor	"for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times" (1957, Capital punishment)


Founder/significant follower
	School/tradition	Existentialism


Award Winner
	Awards Won	"for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times" (1957, Nobel Prize in Literature)


Film story contributor
	Film Story Credits	The First Man The Stranger


Literature Subject
	Works Written About This Topic	Albert Camus: A Life The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century


Philosopher
	Interests	Ethics Politics
	Era	20th-century philosophy


Deceased Person
	Date of death	1960-01-04
	Place of death	Villeblevin
	Cause of death	Traffic collision


Award Nominee
	Award Nominations	Nobel Prize in Literature (1950) Nobel Prize in Literature (1949)


Influence Node
	Influenced By	André Gide Augustine of Hippo Franz Kafka Show 17 more Even more Hide
	Influenced	Aberjhani Anne Rice Antanas Škėma Show 33 more Even more Hide
	Peers	Richard Wright


Author
	Works written	'e tranger A Happy Death A Queda Show 177 more Even more Hide
	Book editions published	A Happy Death A Happy Death (Penguin Modern Classics) Plague (Twentieth Century Classics) Show 56 more Even more Hide