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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957

"for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
France
b. 1913
(in Mondovi, Algeria)
d. 1960
 
 
 
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