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Albert Camus
Full Name of the recipient | Albert Camus |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Year of Award | 1957 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
Award Shared with | |
Motivation for the Award | for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times |
Place of Birth | Mondovi, French Algeria (now known as Algeria DZA) |
Date of Birth | 7 November 1913 |
Age at the time of Award | 43 years |
Place of Death | Sens, France FRA |
Date of Death | 4 January 1960 |