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Who was Albert Camus?
An official question of the French civic exam, with its answer and the official text that proves it, in French and English.
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Qui était Albert Camus ?
Who was Albert Camus?
Answer. A French writer and philosopher, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
Un écrivain et philosophe français, prix Nobel de littérature en 1957.
Albert Camus (1913 to 1960) wrote The Stranger and The Plague. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
The official text that proves it
« Albert Camus est l’un des grands penseurs du 20ème siècle. À la fois écrivain, philosophe et journaliste, il développe la notion de l’absurde »
Albert Camus is one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. A writer, philosopher and journalist, he developed the notion of the absurd.
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