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Short biography: Albert Camus was born November 7, 1913 in Algeria. He studied at the University of Algiers and finished his thesis on Plotinus 1936. The year before he had joined the French Communist Party. During World War Two he joined the French Resistanc, working with an underground newspaper. In 1941 he left Algeria and moved to Bordeaux and later to Paris. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1957. He died January 4, 1960 in a carcrash in France. Selected works: |