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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. LAURA MARRIS is a writer and translator. Her book-length translations include Louis Guilloux's novel Blood Dark, which was short-listed for the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Her translation of Jean-Yves Frétigné's biography of Gramsci is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in 2021. She teaches creative writing at the University at Buffalo.
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