Camus

American  

[ka-my, ka-moo] / kaˈmü, kæˈmu /

noun

1. Albert 1913–60, French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1957.

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Camus British  

/ kamy /

noun

1. Albert (albɛr). 1913–60, French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, noted for his pessimistic portrayal of man's condition of isolation in an absurd world: author of the novels L'Étranger (1942) and La Peste (1947), the plays Le Malentendu (1945) and Caligula (1946), and the essays Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) and L'Homme révolté (1951): Nobel prize for literature 1957.

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She claims to inhabit the soul of Albert Camus, and flings around aphorisms about art that fly over Cricket’s head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

The existential philosophy of Camus and Sartre, self-evident truths for these absurdist writers, is conveyed less through the content than through the style of their plays.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

Camus had won the Nobel Prize in literature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Camus used the notebooks more as a place to organize his thoughts than as a chronicle of current events, but they do feature some real-time accounts of history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Probably the worst thing about being so hungry is I don’t even have enough energy to read my new book: The Stranger by Albert Camus.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña