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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Literature (114) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1950s (72) 1957 (6) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1910s (117) 1913 (9) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Africa (26) Africa, northern (9) Algeria (2) Dréan (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1960s (49) 1960 (3) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) France (51) Villeblevin (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) A (79) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name A-D (195) C (49) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name A-D (94) A (39) Albert (9) 23. Religion 23. Religion Irreligion group (86) Atheism (75) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 40 - 49 (140) 45 (15) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations (123) Media and Communication Workers (117) Writers and Editors (101) Writers and Authors (101) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) France (60) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) complete name: Albert Camus nobel prize: literature award year: 1957 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 was awarded to Albert Camus "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts given name: Albert family name: Camus occupation: screenwriter occupation: writer occupation: playwright occupation: author occupation: journalist occupation: philosopher occupation: novelist occupation: essayist occupation: trade unionist occupation: French Resistance fighter field of work: philosophy work location: L'Express, Neuchâtel, Switzerland notable work: The Stranger notable work: The Plague notable work: The Fall notable work: The Myth of Sisyphus notable work: The Rebel notable work: A Happy Death notable work: Albert Camus, María Casares. Correspondence (1944-1959) description: Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. Camus did not consider himself to be an existentialist despite usually being classified as a follower of it, even in his lifetime. In a 1945 interview, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked.". Camus was born in French Algeria to a Pied-Noir family and studied at the University of Algiers, from which he graduated in 1936. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons to "denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA". pronunciation: (French: [albɛʁ kamy]) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1957/summary/> date birth: 1913 date death: 1960 usual name: Albert Camus
