The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Ashley Montagu, 1905 – 1999
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A Short Biography of Albert Camus

Author Name:

Albert Camus

Born As:

Albert Camus

Other Names:

Albert Camus

Born:

7 Nov 1913

Died:

4 Jan 1960




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Author and philosopher                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

The Stranger - L'Étranger, often translated as The Outsider - 1942
The Plague - La Peste - 1947
The Fall - La Chute - 1956
A Happy Death - La Mort heureuse - written 1936-1938, published posthumously 1971
The First Man - Le premier homme - incomplete, published posthumously 1995

Short stories:
Exile and the Kingdom - L'exil et le royaume - a collection of long and short stories - 1957

Non-fiction:

Betwixt and Between - L'envers et l'endroit, also translated as The Wrong Side and the Right Side - Collection, 1937
Nuptials - Noces - 1938
The Myth of Sisyphus - Le Mythe de Sisyphe - 1942
The Rebel - L'Homme révolté - 1951
Notebooks 1935-1942 - Carnets, mai 1935 — fevrier 1942 - 1962
Notebooks 1943-1951 - 1965

Essays:

Create Dangerously - Essay on Realism and Artistic Creation - 1957
The Ancient Greek Tragedy - Parnassos lecture in Greece - 1956
The Crisis of Man - Lecture on Columbia University - 1946
Why Spain? - Essay for the theatrical play L' Etat de Siege - 1948
The Rebel - L'Homme révolté - 1951
Reflections on the Guillotine - Réflexions sur la guillotine - Extended essay, 1957
Neither Victims Nor Executioners - Combat - 1946

Plays:

Caligula - performed 1945, written 1938
Requiem for a Nun - Requiem pour une nonne, adapted from William Faulkner's novel by the same name - 1956
The Misunderstanding - Le Malentendu - 1944
The State of Siege L' Etat de Siege - 1948
The Just Assassins - Les Justes - 1949
The Possessed - Les Possédés, adapted from Dostoyevsky's novel by the same name - 1959

Collections:

Resistance, Rebellion, and Death - 1961 - a collection of essays selected by the author.
Lyrical and Critical Essays - 1970
Youthful Writings - 1976
Between Hell and Reason: Essays from the Resistance Newspaper "Combat", 1944-1947 - 1991
Camus at "Combat": Writing 1944-1947 - 2005.                                              
                                              
Albert Camus was the second youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, after Rudyard Kipling.
Albert Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons