Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Death: 4th January 1960
Location: Lourmarin Cemetery, Lourmarin, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Cause of death: Accident – Car
Photo taken by: Michel Enkiri
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French-Algerian novelist and philosopher. Awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times’. 

Camus was born into a French-Algerian family in Algeria. In 1930 he contracted tuberculosis and was forced to study part-time, he graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1935. He joined the French Communist Party in 1934 as he was concerned over the political situation in Spain and he wrote for various socialist newspapers. 

In 1940 he married Francine Faure, his second wife, with whom he had twins, Catherine and Jean. In 1941 he moved to Bordeaux where he completed his first book, The Outsider. During the Second World War he joined the French Resistance and became the editor of an underground newspaper.  During the 1950s he devoted himself to human rights. In 1960 Camus was killed in a car crash in the town of Villeblevin.