Albert Camus
Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) — France (born in Algeria), writing in French. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
“for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times” — The Nobel Committee citation
About Albert Camus
French-Algerian writer and philosopher, bound up with the philosophy of the absurd. One of the most widely read French authors of the twentieth century and the second-youngest person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.