Albert Camus (French: [alb kamy] ( listen); 7 November 1913 4 January 1960) was a French Nobel Prize winning

ng author,
journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay "The
Rebel" that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual and sexual
freedom.
Camus did not consider himself to be an existentialist despite usually being classified as one (even during his own lifetime).
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In
an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always
surprised to see our names linked...".
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Camus was born in French Algeria to a Pied-Noir family. He studied at the University of Algiers, where he was goalkeeper for
the university association football team, until he contracted tuberculosis in 1930. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for
International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis's Citizens of the World
movement.
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The formation of this group, according to Camus, was intended to "denounce two ideologies found in both
the USSR and the USA" regarding their idolatry of technology.
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Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted
earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times".
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