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Albert Camus

Born in Algeria in 1913, ALBERT CAMUS published The Stranger--now one of the most widely read novels of this century--in 1942. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.
Caligula and Three Other Plays
The Plague
Speaking Out
Personal Writings
Committed Writings
Create Dangerously
The Myth of Sisyphus
Lyrical and Critical Essays
Exile and the Kingdom
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
The First Man
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Happy Death
The Rebel
The Fall
No Exit and Three Other Plays
The Stranger

Books

Caligula and Three Other Plays
The Plague
Speaking Out
Personal Writings
Committed Writings
Create Dangerously
The Myth of Sisyphus
Lyrical and Critical Essays
Exile and the Kingdom
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
The First Man
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Happy Death
The Rebel
The Fall
No Exit and Three Other Plays
The Stranger

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On Monday, May 5, three Penguin Random House authors were honored with a Pulitzer Prize. Established in 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes are the most prestigious awards in American letters. To date, PRH has 143 Pulitzer Prize winners, including William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Josh Steinbeck, Ron Chernow, Anne Applebaum, Colson Whitehead, and many more. Take a look at our 2025 Pulitzer Prize

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