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Albert Camus
French philosopher and writer (1913–1960)
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Albert Camus ([2]ka-MOO; French:[albɛʁkamy]ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist,[3] and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
Camus was born in French Algeria to pied-noir parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at Combat, an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many
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Albert Cossery
Egyptian-born French writer
Albert Cossery | |
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| Born | (1913-11-03)3 November 1913 Cairo, Egypt |
| Died | 22 June 2008(2008-06-22) (aged 94) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | French |
Albert Cossery (3 November 1913 – 22 June 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer.[1] Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in the French language, all of his novels were either set in his country of birth, Egypt, or in an imaginary Middle Eastern country. He was nicknamed "The Voltaire of the Nile". His writings pay tribute to the humble and to the misfits of his childhood in Cairo, as well as praise a form of laziness and simplicity very distant from our contemporary society.
Albert Cossery was well known in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he lived in the same hotel, Hotel La Louisiane, since 1945.
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[edit]Albert Cossery (Arabic: البرت قصير
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Remembering Cairo-born freedom writer Albert Cossery
Albert Cossery in Cairo, date unknown - Image courtesy égyptophile
CAIRO - 22 June 2017: Portraying Egypt and Arab countries in his ambitious French novels, Egyptian-French writer Albert Cossery is remembered on the day of his death, June 22, for his comparisons between poverty and wealth.
When he passed away at the age of 94, freedom-inspired writer Cossery had written eight novels over the course of 60 years in which he contrasted the powerful and the powerless in a dramatic manner. He was known for “writing mocks vanity and the narrowness of materialism and his principal characters are mainly vangrants, thieves or dandies that subvert the order of an unfair society,” according to a biography posted on Goodreads.
Born in Cairo of Greek Orthodox Syrian and Lebanese descent, Cossery was inspired by French novelist Honoré de Balzac to whom he owed a philosophical concept of life, wherein he believed that lazin