Who is Albert Camus?
Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria in 1913. An author and philosopher, he was the second youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, receiving the award in 1957. His writings and philosophies brought to the world the idea of Absurdism. His idea of the absurd was the human search for meaning and clarity within a world that offers no explanation of either. In his early years, Albert Camus studied at the University of Algiers, but he contracted tuberculosis, which forced him to continue his studies part-time. In 1934, he joined the French Communist party, but soon found himself in trouble and was denounced as a Trotskyite. He married Simone Hie, a morphine addict, in the same year. The marriage soon broke down due to infidelities on both sides. Throughout his life, Albert Camus was always a political activist. He spent his whole life strongly objecting to capital punishment. During the war, he joined the French Resistance group Combat and wrote for an underground paper of th
