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newborn
Albert Camus was born in the Algerian town of Mondovi (now called Drean) on November 7, 1913, when the African country was under French dominion. -
career plan
Camus was a child who loved sports and was very diligent in his studies. He obtained a scholarship to study Philosophy and Letters at the University of Algiers with the hope of eventually becoming a teacher.
This last purpose could not be carried out when he contracted tuberculosis. -
career opportunities
While studying, Camus worked in various trades to help his mother financially.
A great lover of theater, he created, directed and acted in an amateur company founded initially for working-class audiences. -
career move
He joined the Communist Party and around that time made many trips, writing his impressions in titles such as "L'Envers et l'Endroit" (1937) and Noces à Tipasa (1939) -
career path
Disappointed by their totalitarian attitudes, Albert Camus abandoned the communist ideology, and began to work as a journalist for the newspaper "Alger-Republicain". -
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career ladder
He was editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Combat" from 1943 to 1947.
then published his first novel, entitled "à l'étranger" The same year also saw the publication of the essay "Le mythe de Sisyphe" and the play "Le malentendu" .
"Caligula" and the existentialist novel "La peste"
in 1950 he worked as a journalist at the newspaper "L'Express" and wrote "l'automne"
and in 1957 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. -
Decease
"le premier homme" was his last work, an unfinished novel that was published posthumously after his death on January 4, 1960 as a result of an automobile accident in Villeblevin (France).