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Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 7 November 1913
- Died
- 4 January 1960
- Conflict
- World War II
- Place of birth
- Dréan
- Place of death
- Villeblevin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Albert
- Family name
- Camus
- Father
- Lucien Auguste Camus
- Spouse
- Simone Hié, Francine Faure
- Child
- Catherine Camus, Jean Camus
- Movement
- continental philosophy
- Field of work
- philosophy, literature, journalism, ethics, existence, political philosophy, opinion journalism, theatre, literary activity, essay, drama, The strange writer
- Occupation
- writer, philosopher, novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, French resistance fighter, poet, association football player, opinion journalist, actor
- Citizenship
- France
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- atheism
- cause of death
- single-vehicle accident
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Dictionary of African Biography, Q131904513
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- University of Algiers 1
- employer
- L'Express, Alger républicain, Combat, Paris-Soir, Le Soir républicain
- has works in the collection
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vanderbilt Museum of Art
- influenced by
- Søren Kierkegaard, André Malraux, Plotinus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Jean Grenier, André Gide, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lev Shestov, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Simone de Beauvoir
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- manner of death
- accidental death
- name in native language
- Albert Camus
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature
- notable work
- L'homme révolté, A Happy Death, The Fall, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, The Plague, Albert Camus, María Casares. Correspondence (1944-1959), Caligula, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
- place of burial
- Cemetery in Lourmarin
- residence
- France
- sport
- association football
- time period
- contemporary philosophy
- topic's main category
- Category:Albert Camus
- unmarried partner
- Blanche Balain, María Casares, Mamaine Koestler, María Casares, Catherine Sellers, Mette Ivers
- work location
- Paris
- writing language
- French
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