Albert Camus Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria, on November 7, 1913, and died instantaneously in a car crash in route to Paris on January4, 1960. In the interval he studied philosophies at the University of Algiers, went to Frances where he severed in the Resistance by editing Combat, and had a brief marriage and divorce early in life. Later he remarried happily and fathered twins; he wrote novels, essays, notebooks, plays and translations of plays; he also suffered from severe bouts of tuberculosis. He won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1987. He was the third youngest individual to win that prize at that time. He left a body of work that has occu