\paperw4260 \margr0\margl0 \plain \qj\li105\ri195 \f1 \b Albert Camus\par
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\b0 Born at Mondovi in French Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus was raised in Algiers by his mother,
a simple housewife. At a very early age he attracted attention by his gift for writing and gradually mastered the art in all its forms, as a journalist, poet, novelist, and philosopher. Deeply attached to the land where he was born, he waxed lyrical in h
is evocation of the Mediterranean world but remained lucid when it came to the contradictions of colonization. In the forties he earned himself a place among the great names of French literature after the publication of \i L'Etranger\i0 (\i The Outsider
\i0 ) (1942) and \i La Peste\i0 (\i The Plague\i0 ) (1947). He gained equal recognition as a philosopher and playwright (\i Caligula\i0 , 1944). Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1947, he died in an automobile accident in 1960.\par
