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Why did Albert Camus receive the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus, photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Albert Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times."1