Nobel laureate
Albert Camus — 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”
Prize motivation
“for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”
The Swedish Academy awarded Albert Camus the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.
Other laureates of the 1950s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).