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Albert Camus, recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born into a working-class family in Mondovi, Algeria. His father was killed when he was an infant, and he was raised in poverty. He was educated at the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy. He worked as a journalist from 1938 to 1956.
Camus' first book, L'ENVERS AT L'ENDROIT (BETWIXT AND BETWEEN), was published when he was 24. In 1942 he published one of his best-known works, L'ETRANGER (THE STRANGER).
Albert Camus died in a car accident in Sens, France in 1960.
CHRONOLOGY
1913 He was born in Mondovi, Algeria.
1914 His father was killed.
1937 L'ENVERS AT L'ENDROIT (BETWIXT AND BETWEEN)
1938 He became a journalist for the newspaper ALGER-REPUBLICAIN.
1939 NOCES
1940 He began working for the newspaper PARIS-SOIR.; He married Francine Faure.
1942 L'ETRANGER (THE STRANGER); LE MYTHE DE SISYPHE (THE MYTH OF SISYPHOS)
1943 He began writing for the underground newspaper COMBAT.
1945 CALIGULA
1947 LA PESTE (THE PLAGUE)
1951 L'HOMME REVOLTE (THE REBEL)
1955 He began working for L'EXPRESS.
1956 LA CHUTE (THE FALL)
1957 L'EXIL ET LE ROYAUME (EXILE AND THE KINGDOME); He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1960 He died in a car accident in Sens, France. (January 4)
1965 ESSAIS
1968 LYRICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS; SUMMER
1970 SELECTED ESSAYS AND NOTEBOOKS; LA MORT HEUREUSE (A HAPPY DEATH)
1976 YOUTHFUL WRITINGS OF ALBERT CAMUS
1983 OEUVRES COMPLETES
1987 AMERICAN JOURNALS
1994 LA PREMIER HOMME (THE FIRST MAN)
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