Albert Camus

Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria on November 7th, 1913. At the University of Algiers Camus studied philosophy and joined the Algerian Communist Party in 1935, before leaving it again in 1937. In 1936 Camus founded The Theater of Work; three years later his first play, Caligula, was written, but it wouldn’t celebrate its world premiere in Paris until 1945. In the following years Camus worked as a journalist and in 1940 settled in occupied Paris, where his novel The Stranger was published in 1942. From 1944/45 Camus was editor-in-chief of Combat, one of the newspapers of the Résistance, and edited at Gallimard. His most significant works, in addition to plays, include the novels The Plague (1947) and The Fall (1956), as well as the essay The Rebel (1951). Camus received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Albert Camus died in a car accident near Paris on January 4th, 1960.