Albert Camus was a prolific writer, being a journalist, philosopher, essayist, playwright and novelist. Two of his non-fiction books investigated the works of other contemporary philosophers, Nietzsche, Sartre and Kierkegaard and investigated an ‘absurdist philosophy’ of life. 

His best-known works include The Stranger and The Plague, and investigated the indifferent universe and the human need for meaning and hope. Like the Greek legend of Sisyphus, the struggles that humans face are tremendous, but there is meaning in the toil that is given as punishment by the gods. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and his works continue to have an influence in both fiction and non-fiction.

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