In 1936, the independence-minded Algerian Communist Party (PCA) was founded. by thesis).Ĭamus joined the French Communist Party in 1934, apparently for concern over the political situation in Spain (which eventually resulted in the Spanish Civil War) rather than support for Marxist-Leninist doctrine. He completed his licence de philosophie (BA) in 1935 in May of 1936, he successfully presented his thesis on Plotinus, Neo-Platonisme et Pensee Chretienne for his diplome d'etudes superieures (roughly equivalent to an M.A. He took odd jobs including private tutor, car parts clerk, and work for the Meteorological Institute.

However, he contracted tuberculosis in 1930, which put an end to his football activities (he had been a goalkeeper for the university team) and forced him to make his studies a part-time pursuit. In 1923, Camus was accepted into the lycee and eventually to the University of Algiers. Camus lived in poor conditions during his childhood in the Belcourt section of Algiers. His father, Lucien, died in the Battle of the Marne in 1914 during the First World War, while serving as a member of the Zouave infantry regiment.

Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria to a French Algerian (pied noir) settler family. He is also the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in a car crash 3 years after receiving the award. Albert Camus (pronounced Kam-oo) (November 7, 1913- January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of absurdism.Ĭamus was the second youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (after Rudyard Kipling) when he received the award in 1957.

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