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Albert Camus was born on the 7th of November 1913 in Algeria, into a French Algerian settler family.

A journalist and writer, he was one of the leading figures of French cultural life from 1936 until his death.

As a journalist he wrote for several left-wing newspapers in Algeria in the 1930s and then for the magazine, France Soir, throughout the 1940s.

He joined the French resistance from 1942 and contributed to and edited the underground paper Combat until the end of the war and beyond to 1947.

While working at “Combat”, he met the French philosopher and left-wing political activist, Jean-Paul Sartre.  He was an important member of Sartre’s Existentialist circle after the war. Camus later caused a painful split from these colleagues by his criticism of Communist practices in the Soviet bloc.

In 1960 his life was tragically cut short in a fatal car crash