What is Albert Camus?
{{nobelprize|Literature}} {{redirect|Camus|the Spanish poet and writer|Matilde Camus}} {{Infobox philosopher | image = Albert Camus, gagnant de prix Nobel, portrait en buste, posé au bureau, faisant face à gauche, cigarette de tabagisme.jpg | caption = Portrait from ''New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection'', 1957 | region = Western philosophy | era = [[20th century philosophy]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|11|7|df=yes}} | birth_place = Dréan, El Taref, French [[Algeria]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1960|1|4|1913|11|7}} | death_place = Villeblevin, [[Yonne]], [[Burgundy]], [[France]] | school_tradition = [[Absurdism]] | main_interests = [[Ethics]], [[Human nature|humanity]], [[justice]], [[love]], [[politics]] | influences = [[Plotinus]], [[Augustine of Hippo]], [[Søren Kierkegaard]], [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], [[Karl Marx]], [[Franz Kafka]], [[Herman Melville]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Simone Weil]], [[Victor Hugo]], [[Pascal Pia]], [[George Orwell]], [[André Gide]], [[Max Stirner]], [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Lev Shestov]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] | influenced = [[Thomas Merton]], [[Jacques Monod]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Orhan Pamuk]], [[Mohsin Hamid]], [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]], [[Charles Bukowski]], [[Paul Auster]], [[Huey P. Newton]] }} '''Albert Camus''' (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a [[French people|French]] [[philosopher]] and [[writer]]. Camus wrote [[novel]]s and [[Play (theatre)|plays]]. Camus was born in [[Algeria]], a [[country]] in [[North Africa]]. He had French parents. Camus was an [[Existentialism|existentialist]] philosopher. [[Existentialism]] is a [[philosophy]] that is very different from other ways of thinking. Camus won the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1957. He was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, after [[Rudyard Kipling]], and the first African-born writer to receive the award.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lennon |first=Peter |title=''Camus and His Women'' |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/1