Albert Camus Biography

Albert Camus is born at Mondovi in French Algeria.

Camus publishes The Myth of Sisyphus, developing his philosophy of the absurd.

Camus publishes The Stranger, a novel centred on alienation, judgment and absurdity.

Camus publishes The Plague, portraying solidarity and moral resistance during an epidemic.

Camus publishes The Rebel, examining revolt, revolution and the limits of political violence.

Camus publishes The Fall, a philosophical novel structured as a confessional monologue.

Camus receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for illuminating problems of the human conscience.

Albert Camus dies in a motor accident near Villeblevin, aged forty-six.