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Albert Camus

1913 - 1960

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Albert Camus ( kam-OO; 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 9,792,417 page views. His biography is available in 128 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 125 in 2019). Albert Camus is the 23rd most popular writer (down from 16th 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

Among writers, Albert Camus ranks 23 out of 5,755. Before him are Miguel de Cervantes, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ovid, Molière, Agatha Christie, and Anton Chekhov. After him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Petrarch, Anne Frank, Giovanni Boccaccio, Rumi, and Honoré de Balzac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Albert Camus ranks 1. After him are Richard Nixon, Vivien Leigh, Rosa Parks, Gerald Ford, Willy Brandt, Menachem Begin, Jean Marais, Robert Capa, Josef Bican, Jesse Owens, and Burt Lancaster. Among people deceased in 1960, Albert Camus ranks 1. After him are Boris Pasternak, Clark Gable, Erich Raeder, Melanie Klein, Albert Kesselring, Wilhelm Pieck, Max von Laue, Amanullah Khan, Walther Funk, Paula Hitler, and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Albert Camus ranks 2 out of 184. Before him are Augustine of Hippo (354). After him are Apuleius (125), Tariq ibn Ziyad (670), Yves Saint Laurent (1936), Jacques Derrida (1930), Macrinus (164), Louis Althusser (1918), Jugurtha (-160), Saint Monica (332), 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), Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Robert Merle (1908), Assia Djebar (1936), Hélène Cixous (1937), Kateb Yacine (1929), Mohammed Dib (1920), Isaac Alfasi (1013), Mouloud Feraoun (1913), and Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578).

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