Albert Camus
Born
in Mondovi, French Algeria
November 07, 1913
Died
January 04, 1960
Genre
Influences
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The Stranger
2150 editions
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published
1942
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The Plague
590 editions
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published
1947
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The Fall
496 editions
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published
1956
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The Myth of Sisyphus
439 editions
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published
1942
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by
52 editions
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published
1942
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A Happy Death
by
173 editions
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published
1971
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The Rebel
232 editions
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published
1951
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Caligula
134 editions
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published
1944
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Exile and the Kingdom
223 editions
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published
1950
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The First Man
196 editions
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published
1994
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“Don¡¯t walk in front of me¡ I may not follow
Don¡¯t walk behind me¡ I may not lead
Walk beside me¡ just be my friend”
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Don¡¯t walk behind me¡ I may not lead
Walk beside me¡ just be my friend”
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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Polls

The best winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Jos¨¦ Saramago (1998)
Orhan Pamuk (2006)
Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)
Annie Ernaux (2022)
Toni Morrison (1993)
Bob Dylan (2016)
Olga Tokarczuk (2018)
John Steinbeck (1962)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1964)
Rudyard Kipling (1907)
Henri Bergson (1927)
Albert Camus (1957)
Samuel Beckett (1969)
Seamus Heaney (1995)
Elfriede Jelinek (2004)
Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021)
Gao Xingjian (2000)
Theodor Mommsen (A History of Rome) (1902)
Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
W.B. Yeats (1923)
Sigrid Undset (1928)
Hermann Hesse (1946)
T.S. Eliot (1948)
Bertrand Russell (1950)
Patrick White (1973)
Saul Bellow (1976)
Odysseas Elytis (1979)
Naguib Mahfouz (1988)
Svetlana Alexievich (2015)
Peter Handke (2019)
Louise Gl¨¹ck (2020)
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905)
Giosu¨¨ Carducci (1906)
Selma Lagerl?f (1909)
Romain Rolland (1915)
Henrik Pontoppidan (1917)
Anatole France (1921)
Jacinto Benavente (1922)
George Bernard Shaw (1925)
Sinclair Lewis (1930)
Winston Churchill (1953)
Halld¨®r Laxness (1955)
Juan Ram¨®n Jim¨¦nez (1956)
Boris Pasternak (1958)
Yasunari Kawabata (1968)
Jaroslav Seifert (1984)
Derek Walcott (1992)
G¨¹nter Grass (1999)
Herta M¨¹ller (2009)
Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson (1903)
Jos¨¦ Echegaray (1904)
Paul Heyse (1910)
Maurice Maeterlinck (1911)
Karl Gjellerup (1917)
Knut Hamsun (Growth of the Soil) (1920)
W?adys?aw Stanis?aw Reymont (The Peasants) (1924)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931)
John Galsworthy (The Forsyte Saga) (1932)
Luigi Pirandello (1934)
Roger Martin du Gard (The Thibaults) (1937)
Frans Emil Sillanp?? (1939)
Johannes V. Jensen (1944)
Gabriela Mistral (1945)
William Faulkner (1949)
Salvatore Quasimodo (1959)
Ivo Andri? (1961)
George Seferis (1963)
Miguel ?ngel Asturias (1967)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970)
Eugenio Montale (1975)
Czes?aw Mi?osz (1980)
Elias Canetti (1981)
William Golding (1983)
Joseph Brodsky (1987)
Wis?awa Szymborska (1996)
Imre Kert¨¦sz (2002)
J.M. Coetzee (2003)
Doris Lessing (2007)
Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
Alice Munro (2013)
Patrick Modiano (2014)
Fr¨¦d¨¦ric Mistral (1904)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908)
Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)
Verner von Heidenstam (1916)
Carl Spitteler (Olympian Spring) (1919)
Grazia Deledda (1926)
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1933)
Eugene O'Neill (1936)
Pearl S. Buck (1938)
Andr¨¦ Gide (1947)
P?r Lagerkvist (1951)
Fran?ois Mauriac (1952)
Saint-John Perse (1960)
Mikhail Sholokhov (And Quiet Flows the Don) (1965)
S.Y. Agnon (1966)
Nelly Sachs (1966)
Pablo Neruda (1971)
Heinrich B?ll (1972)
Eyvind Johnson (1974)
Harry Martinson (1974)
Vicente Aleixandre (1977)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978)
Claude Simon (1985)
Wole Soyinka (1986)
Camilo Jos¨¦ Cela (1989)
Octavio Paz (1990)
Nadine Gordimer (1991)
Kenzabur¨ ?e (1994)
Dario Fo (1997)
V.S. Naipaul (2001)
Harold Pinter (2005)
J.M.G. Le Cl¨¦zio (2008)
Tomas Transtr?mer (2011)
Mo Yan (2012)
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