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"...for the first time, in that night alive alive with
signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference
of the world."
- from The Stranger
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Albert
Camus was born the son of a working-class family in Algeria in 1913.
The early years of his life were spent working various jobs in North
Africa. There, Camus worked in the weather bureau, in an automoblie-accessory
firm and in a shipping company to help pay for courses at the University
of Algiers.
He then turned to journalism where he gained public notice while rousing
the Algerian government with his report on the sad state of the Muslims
of the Kabylie region.
Camus ran the Théâtre de l´Equipe from 1935 to 1938,
producing plays by Malraux, Gide, Syng and Dostoevski.
The editor of Combat - an underground newpaper - during World
War II, Camus was also one of the leading writers of the French Resistance.
In 1957, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
On January 4, 1960, Albert Camus' life was cut short in an automobile
accident, ending the career of one of the most important literary
figures of the Western world at the height or his skills. |
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