Albert Camus was a French philosopher, writer, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957, announced October 17, 1957. Albert Camus, “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”. Albert Camus: born 1913, Mondovi, French Algeria (now Algeria). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).