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Born November 7, 1913 • Algeria
Died January 4, 1960 (aged 46) • Sens • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1957)
Notable Works “Actuelles III” • “Caligula” • “Cross Purpose” • “L’Envers et l’endroit” • “Noces” • “Requiem for a Nun” • “The Fall” • “The Myth of Sisyphus” • “The Plague” • “The Possessed” • “The Rebel” • “The Stranger”
Movement / Style Theatre of the Absurd

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