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Albert Camus was a son of a working-class family, was born in Algeria, France in 1913. He spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he worked a various jobs to help pay for his courses at the University of Algiers. He then turned to journalism as a career.
He wrote The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall, and Exile and the Kingdom; his philosophical essays, The Myth of Sisyphus and the Rebel;
Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. His sudden death on January 4, 1960, cut short the career of one of the most important literary figures of the Western world.
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