Albert Camus
The son of a farm labourer, Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. He is the author of The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, The Plague, Exile and the Kingdom and American Journals. The Outsider, published in 1942, is France’s best-selling novel this century. Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was killed in a car crash three years later.