French novelist Albert Camus is born

Thank you my friend TSgt Joe C. for making us aware that on November 7, 1913 French novelist Albert Camus was born. In 1957 he was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957

Background from nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1957/camus/facts/
"Albert Camus Biographical
Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy (only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field), he came to France at the age of twenty-five. The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation was a columnist for the newspaper Combat. But his journalistic activities had been chiefly a response to the demands of the time; in 1947 Camus retired from political journalism and, besides writing his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright (e.g., Caligula, 1944). He also adapted plays by Calderon, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun. His love for the theatre may be traced back to his membership in L’Equipe, an Algerian theatre group, whose “collective creation” Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.

The essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), 1942, expounds Camus’s notion of the absurd and of its acceptance with “the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement – and a conscious dissatisfaction”. Meursault, central character of L’Étranger (The Stranger), 1942, illustrates much of this essay: man as the nauseated victim of the absurd orthodoxy of habit, later – when the young killer faces execution – tempted by despair, hope, and salvation. Dr. Rieux of La Peste (The Plague), 1947, who tirelessly attends the plague-stricken citizens of Oran, enacts the revolt against a world of the absurd and of injustice, and confirms Camus’s words: “We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them”. Other well-known works of Camus are La Chute (The Fall), 1956, and L’Exil et le royaume (Exile and the Kingdom), 1957. His austere search for moral order found its aesthetic correlative in the classicism of his art. He was a stylist of great purity and intense concentration and rationality.

From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969
This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.

Albert Camus died on January 4, 1960.

Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1957
Nobel Prize in Literature 1957
Albert Camus
Born: 7 November 1913, Mondovi, French Algeria (now Algeria)
Died: 4 January 1960, Sens, France
Residence at the time of the award: France
Prize motivation: "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times."
Language: French

Prize share: 1/1

Life
Albert Camus was born in Algeria to French parents. He wanted to be an author, and despite his impoverished upbringing, he got a chance to study at the university in Algeria. He wrote for the newspaper Alger Républicaine about the political situation in the country. The newspaper was banned, and he moved to Paris, where he subsequently worked as a journalist and author and in the theater. He married Francine Faure and they had twins, Catherine and Jean. Albert Camus died at age 46 in an auto accident.

Work
Albert Camus made his debut in 1937, but his breakthrough came with the novel The Stranger, published in 1942. It concerns the absurdity of life, a theme he returns to in other books, including his philosophical work The Myth of Sisyphus. He also worked as a playwright and journalist. Because of his friendship with Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus was labeled an existentialist, but he preferred not to be linked with any ideology. His last novel, The Fall, was published in 1956, and an unfinished autobiography, The First Man, was published posthumously."

Camus and The Stranger (Rare BBC Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJCjVcaRCos

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