The Life Of Albert Camus

By Ashleywiggins
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    Birth - Death

  • Birth

    Albert Camus Is born in Mondovi in French Algeria to a Spanish mother and an Alsatian father. His family is a poor agricultural worker of Alsatian poor and his mother has a hearing problem.

  • Albert's Father Dies

    Albert's father Lucien is fatally wounded in the battle of Marne in WW1, and dies in October, leaving albert and his mother to fend for themselves. Albert grows up poor in Belcourt, Algiers.

  • Albert is accepted into University of Algiers

    Albert is accepted into University of Algiers
    Camus became political during his student years, joining first the Communist Party and then the Algerian People's Party. As a champion of individual rights, he opposed French colonization and argued for the empowerment of Algerians in politics and labor. Camus would later be associated with the French anarchist movement. ("Albert Camus." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 02 Apr. 2014. Web. 19 May 2017.)

  • Tiberculosis

    Albert contracts tuberculosis and has to give up on his football career.

  • 1st Mariage

    1st Mariage
    Camus Marries his first wife Simone Hié, but the marriage ended as a consequence of infidelities on both sides

  • Albert Graduates From University of Algiers

    Albert Graduates From University of Algiers
    By 1936 he has an undergraduate and graduate degree in philosophy.

  • Political Involvement

    At the beginning of World War II, Camus joined the French Resistance in order to help free Paris from Nazi rule.In 1945, he was one of the few Allied journalists to condemn the American use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. He was also an outspoken critic of communist theory.("Albert Camus." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 02 Apr. 2014. Web. 19 May 2017.)

  • 2nd Marriage

    2nd Marriage
    Camus married Francine Faure, a pianist and mathematician.

  • The Myth Of Sisyphus Published

    The Myth Of Sisyphus Published

  • The Stranger Published

    The Stranger Published

  • Camus' children are born

    Camus' children are born
    Francine Camus gives birth to two twins, Jean and Catherine.

  • The Plague Published

  • The Fall Published

  • Nobel Prize

    Nobel Prize
    In 1957, Camus wins the Nobel Prize for literature

  • Exile and The Kingdom Published

  • Death

    Death
    Albert dies in a car accident in Villeblevin, France. He had planned to travel by train with his wife and children, but at the last minute he accepted his publisher's proposal to travel with him.