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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Camus has received more than 10,635,627 page views. His biography is available in 134 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 128 in 2019). Albert Camus is the 18th most popular writer (up from 23rd 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 18 out of 7,302. Before him are Victor Hugo, Sophocles, Franz Kafka, Miguel de Cervantes, Jules Verne, and Virgil. After him are Molière, Anton Chekhov, Petrarch, Honoré de Balzac, Aesop, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Albert Camus ranks 2. Before him is Richard Nixon. After him are Gerald Ford, Vivien Leigh, Menachem Begin, Willy Brandt, Rosa Parks, Jean Marais, Robert Capa, Josef Bican, Claude Simon, and Jesse Owens. Among people deceased in 1960, Albert Camus ranks 1. After him are Boris Pasternak, Max von Laue, Clark Gable, Erich Raeder, Paula Hitler, Albert Kesselring, Wilhelm Pieck, Melanie Klein, Walther Funk, Amanullah Khan, and Fausto Coppi.

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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 Apuleius (125), Tariq ibn Ziyad (670), Jacques Derrida (1930), Yves Saint Laurent (1936), Macrinus (164), Saint Monica (332), Louis Althusser (1918), Jugurtha (-160), Ahmed Ben Bella (1916), and Emir Abdelkader (1808).

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Among WRITERS In Algeria

Among writers born in Algeria, Albert Camus ranks 1. After him are Apuleius (125), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Assia Djebar (1936), Robert Merle (1908), Hélène Cixous (1937), Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Kateb Yacine (1929), Mohammed Dib (1920), Isaac Alfasi (1013), Al-Busiri (1213), and Mouloud Feraoun (1913).

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