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Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, 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, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
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Born 7 November 1913 · Died 4 January 1960 · Q34670
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“This country does not need a Talleyrand, but a Saint-Just.”
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nzherald.co.nz: Pictures cannot match the world created by Camus’ words – Joe Bennett
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Clarin.com: Albert Camus, filósofo y escritor francés: "Crear es vivir dos veces"
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Clarin.com: Albert Camus, filósofo y escritor: “La verdadera generosidad para con el porvenir consiste en entregarlo todo al presente”
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Diario Financiero: Habla Cristián Camus: la salida de Información Privilegiada, su nuevo programa y la ruta personal
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El Diario Montañés: Asunción Rumayor Camus
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MUNDIARIO: El malentendido, de Albert Camus: una alegoría sobre el desencuentro humano
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Oman Observer: Reading Sabteh-Ceuta through Camus
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El Comercio Perú: El Niño: Albert Camus, recuerdo, conocimiento e instituciones, por Marcos Agurto | fenómeno El Niño
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calirb.com: The Complete Notebooks by Albert Camus, translated by Ryan Bloom
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ArchDaily: Galería de Casa Ochoquebradas de ELEMENTAL bajo el lente de Felipe Camus - 22
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: The Stranger (novel by Albert Camus) | Summary & Analysis
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The Guardian: The Stranger review – lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic
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The Guardian: New film adaptation of Camus’s L’Étranger opens old colonial wounds
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The Guardian: Handwritten ‘draft’ of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger sold in Paris for €650,000
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The Guardian: Albert Camus novel The Plague leads surge of pestilence fiction
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Italian author Giovanni Catelli argued that Camus might have been killed by the KGB for criticizing the Soviet Union
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Sparked a widespread reconsideration of Camus's allegedly unrepentant colonialism
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In honor of Albert Camus with this phrase in French extracted from his work Noces à Tipasa: "I understand here what is called glory: the right to love beyond measure" (French: Je comprends ici ce qu'on appelle gloire : l
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Died 1960-01-04.
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“Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.”
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“A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.”
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“With rebellion, awareness is born.”
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“O que é a felicidade além da simples harmonia entre o homem e a vida que ele leva?”
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“All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football.”
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“Variant translation: The only great spirit of our time.”
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
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Camus received the news that he was to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Camus was confronted with a moral dilemma
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“Letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, 30 June 1952.”
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Resigned from his work for UNESCO when the UN accepted Spain, under the leadership of the caudillo General Francisco Franco, as a member
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As a sympathiser familiar with anarchist thought
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Following the Sétif and Guelma massacre after Arabs revolted against French mistreatment, Camus was one of only a few mainland journalists to visit the colony
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Founded the Comité français pour la féderation européenne ('French Committee for the European Federation' [CFFE]), declaring that Europe "can only evolve along the path of economic progress, democracy, and peace if th
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Published the story of a man living an absurd life in The Stranger
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And Camus flew to Paris to take a new job at Paris-Soir as layout editor
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Camus wrote a stinging series of articles for the Alger républicain on the atrocious living conditions of the inhabitants of the Kabylie highlands
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Camus began working for the leftist newspaper Alger républicain (founded by Pascal Pia), as he had strong anti-fascist feelings, and the rise of fascist regimes in Europe was worrying him
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Studied at University of Algiers 1 (1935–1936).
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The independence-minded Algerian Communist Party (PCA) was founded, and Camus joined it after his mentor Grenier advised him to do so
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Camus was in a relationship with Simone Hié
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Camus enrolled at the University of Algiers and completed his licence de philosophie (BA) in 1936 after presenting his thesis on Plotinus
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At the age of 17, Camus was diagnosed with tuberculosis
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To continue his studies at a prestigious lyceum (secondary school) near Algiers
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Born 1913-11-07.
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