Full Name: Albert Camus.
Nickname: Didn't have a Nickname.

Father: Lucien Auguste Camus (agricultural worker).
Mother: Catherine Hélène Sintés (maid).
Wife: Simone Hié (drug addict, m. 1934, div. 1936).
Wife: Francine Faure (mathematics teacher, m. 1940).
Daughter: Catherine Camus (twin, b. 1946).
Son: Jean Camus (twin, b. 1946).

Date of Birth: 07 November 1913.
Birth Place: Dréan, El Taref, French Algeria.

Date of Death: 04 January 1960 (aged 46).
Death Place: Villeblevin, Yonne, Burgundy, France.
Cause of Death: Accident (car accident).
Remains/Buried: Lourmarin Cemetery, Lourmarin, France.
Gender: Male.
Zodiac SIGN: Scorpio.
Religion: Agnostic.
Race or Ethnicity: White.
Education:
  • Tutored By: Louis Germain at the Local School
  • University: BA Philosophy, University of Algiers (1935)
  • University: MA Philosophy, University of Algiers (1936)
Occupation: Novelist, Writer, Philosopher.
Political Party:
  • French Communist Party (1935)
  • Algerian People's Party (1936)
Nationality: France.

Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).

Notable Works: The Stranger (1946); The Plague (1947); The Rebel (1954); The Myth of Sisyphus (1955).

Influenced By: Plotinus, Augustine of Hippo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Karl Marx, Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Victor Hugo, George Orwell, André Gide, Max Stirner, Sigmund Freud, Lev Shestov, Jean-Paul Sartre.

French Novelist and philosopher Albert Camus (07 November 1913-04 January 1960) is most known for his contribution to the field of literature. He also contributed to the rise of the philosophical view often known as absurdism. Albert Camus is considered a master of existentialism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.

Early Life & Childhood: Albert Camus was born on 07 November 1913 in Dréan, El Taref, French Algeria. From an early age, he was a good student along with a sportsman. At first, he was tutored by Louis Germain at the local school. In 1923, Albert passed the lycée entrance exams. After that, he was admitted to the University of Algiers. In 1930, he recognized his tuberculosis and left football activities. He was a goalkeeper for the university team. In 1935, Albert completed his licence de philosophie (BA). In May 1936, he successfully presented his thesis on Plotinus and completed his MA. In 1937, he published his first book, L'Envers et L'endroit (collection of essays).

Personal Life & Family: Albert Camus's father, Lucien Auguste Camus was a poor agricultural worker. In 1914, his father died in the Battle of the Marne. In 1934, Albert Camus married Simone Hié but divorced her two years later. In 1940, he married again to Francine Faure who birth a daughter and a son in 1946.

Later Life & Death: In 1938, Albert Camus became a journalist for a socialite paper named the Alger-Republicain. In 1940, he moved to Paris. In March 1940, He was advised to leave Algeria and was declared a threat to national security. In 1942, Albert published his first famous work, The Stranger. In 1943, he was appointed as the editor of a Resistance newspaper, Combat. In 1949, he was again trapped with tuberculosis (TB). In 1951, The Rebel was published. In 1956, he published his novel The Fall. In 1957, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Albert Camus died on 4 January in a car accident. He was buried at Lourmarin Cemetery, Lourmarin, France.