1957 Nobel Prize in Literature
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The 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the French writer Albert Camus (1913–1960) "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times."[1] He is the ninth French author to become a recipient of the prize after Catholic novelist François Mauriac in 1952, and the fourth philosopher after British analytic philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1950.
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Albert Camus | ||||
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Location | Stockholm | |||
Country | Sweden | |||
Presented by | Swedish Academy | |||
First awarded | 1901 | |||
Website | Official website | |||
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Aged 44 when he received the prize, Camus is the second youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, after only Rudyard Kipling (41).[2]