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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Example Sentences

In “The Myth of Sisyphus,” Camus describes a man doomed to push a boulder uphill forever and asks us to imagine him “happy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

Albert Camus believed that to rebel is to say no to injustice, which is simultaneously a positive act of solidarity.

From Salon • Jul. 5, 2025

Risen likens the dormant durability of such national hysteria to the illness described by Albert Camus in his 1947 novel “The Plague.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

“Everyone who came into that house of horrors knew that others had come before him and others would follow,” Mr Camus said.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024

I had not read Sartre nor Camus, and if I walked past Cafe de Flore or Les Deux Magots I did not, then, take any particular note.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates