As a champion of individual rights, he opposed French colonization and argued for the empowerment of Algerians in politics and labor. Political EngagementĬamus became political during his student years, joining first the Communist Party and then the Algerian People's Party. By 1936, he had obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy. He quit the team following a bout of tuberculosis in 1930, thereafter focusing on academic study.
Camus' father died in combat during World War I, after which Camus lived with his mother, who was partially deaf, in a low-income section of Algiers.Ĭamus did well in school and was admitted to the University of Algiers, where he studied philosophy and played goalie for the soccer team. Early LifeĬamus was born on November 7, 1913, in Mondavi, French Algeria. Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 and died on January 4, 1960, in Burgundy, France. His best-known works, including The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), are exemplars of absurdism. Albert Camus became known for his political journalism, novels and essays during the 1940s.
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