Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French-Algerian author and philosopher born in Mondovi, French Algeria in 1913. A key figure in existentialist and absurdist thought, he explored themes of alienation, mortality, and the search for meaning in an indifferent universe. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 at the age of 43, making him the second-youngest recipient at the time. His works including The Stranger, The Plague, and The Myth of Sisyphus remain cornerstones of 20th-century literature and philosophy. He died in a car accident in 1960 at the age of 46.