Albert Camus

French writer, philosopher, playwright, and journalist. He considered the contradiction that while humans seek meaning, the world does not necessarily provide a clear meaning, framing it as the problem of the "absurd." His representative works include the novels The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, and philosophical essays such as The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel. Although sometimes associated with existentialism, he did not like the designation himself. During World War II, he participated in the French resistance movement and engaged in editing the underground newspaper Combat. He took a critical stance against colonialism and totalitarianism, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.

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Year	Albert Camus
1913	Birth in Algeria and impoverished early childhood (Period: 1913–1920s, Location: Mondovi, French Algeria, Algiers) Birth of Albert Camus (Period: November 7, 1913, Location: Dréan, Algeria. His birth place was an area called Mondovi, which was French Algeria at the time.)
1914	World War I (Period: 1914–1918, Location: French Western Front) Death of Camus's father in combat (Period: September 1914, Location: Northeastern France, theater of the Battle of the Marne)
1930	Studying philosophy at the University of Algiers (Age: 16 years old, Period: 1930s, Location: Algiers, Algeria)
1934	Marriage (Albert Camus, Simone Hié, Age: 20 years old, Period: 1934, Location: Stated to be Algiers, Algeria, but specific venue is unknown)
1935	Initiation of worker theater activities (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1935–1939, Location: Algiers, Algeria) Participation in left-wing movements such as the French Communist Party (Age: 21 years old, Period: Around 1935–1937, Location: Algiers, Algeria)
1937	Publication of early work Betrayal and Reversal (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1937, Location: Algiers, Algeria)
1938	Reporting on social issues as a journalist (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1938–1940, Location: Algiers, Algeria, etc.)
1939	World War II (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Britain, North Africa, Mediterranean region, etc.) Ban on the newspaper Alger Républicain (Age: 25 years old, Period: Around 1939–1940, Location: Algiers, French Algeria)
1940	Marriage (Albert Camus, Francine Faure, Age: 27 years old, Period: December 3, 1940, Location: Lyon, France)
1942	Publication of the novel The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1942, Location: Paris, France (publishing))
1943	Resistance activities under French occupation (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1943–1944, Location: Occupation areas centered around Paris, France) Appointment as editor-in-chief of the resistance newspaper Combat (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1943–1945, Location: Paris, France)
1945	Performance of the play Caligula (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1945 (premiere), Location: Paris, France)
1947	Publication of The Plague (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1947, Location: Paris, France (publishing))
1951	Publication of The Rebel (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1951, Location: Paris, France (publishing))
1952	Controversy with Jean-Paul Sartre (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1952, Location: Intellectual society centered around Paris, France)
1954	Algerian War (Age: 40 years old, Period: 1954–1962, Location: French Algeria, mainland France) Political conflicts surrounding Algerian independence (Age: 40 years old, Period: 1954–1960, Location: French Algeria, mainland France)
1956	Publication of the novel The Fall (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1956, Location: Paris, France (publishing))
1957	Winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Age: 43 years old, Period: 1957, Location: Stockholm, Sweden)
1960	Death of Albert Camus (Age: 46 years old, Period: January 4, 1960) Death in a automobile accident (Age: 46 years old, Period: January 4, 1960, Location: Near Villebougis, Yonne Department, France) Sudden death in an automobile accident (Age: 46 years old, Period: January 4, 1960, Location: Near Villebougis, France)

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NATO	Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Harold Macmillan Ernest Bevin Konrad Adenauer Paul-Henri Spaak Pierre Mendès France Margaret Thatcher Helmut Schmidt
British Conservative Party	Anthony Eden Winston Churchill Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home Edward Heath Margaret Thatcher John Major
British Labour Party	Clement Attlee Harold Wilson James Callaghan Michael Foot Neil Kinnock
Culture and Thought	Francis Bacon Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir Albert Camus Hannah Arendt George Orwell Arthur Koestler Umberto Eco Italo Calvino Jean-Philippe Arthur Dubuffet
Science and Technology	John Cockcroft Francis Crick James Watson Dennis Gabor Dorothy Hodgkin Tim Berners-Lee Paul Flory

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