Albert Camus
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 Albert Camus facts

• His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism
• He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom
• He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957
• Camus did not consider himself to be an existentialist despite usually being classified as a follower of it, even in his lifetime
• In a 1945 interview, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist
• Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked
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• Camus was born in French Algeria to a Pied-Noir family and studied at the University of Algiers, from which he graduated in 1936
• In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons to "denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA"