Albert Camus

Born in 1913 in Algeria, Frenchman Albert Camus is one of the most celebrated French language authors of both novels and plays. A contemporary and friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, he was a writer of the Existentialist movement, though he objected to this title. He fought in World War 2 in the French resistance and won the Nobel prize for literature in 1957. His most well-known work is L'étranger (The Stranger), followed by La Peste (The Plague), regarded as a metaphorical story about France during the Nazi occupation.