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Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a well-known French novelist, essayist and playwright, and a master of "existentialism" literature. In 1957, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "enthusiasm and calm elucidation of various contemporary questions to human conscience". He is one of the youngest Nobel Prize-winning writers in history.

In his novels, plays, essays and treatises, Camus profoundly reveals the loneliness of man in an alien world, the increasing alienation between the individual and himself, and the inevitability of sin and death. At the same time, he is not despairing or despondent. He advocates rising up against the absurd and upholding truth and justice in despair. He points out a free humanitarian road other than Christianity and Marxism for the world. His courage to face the bleakness of life, his fearless spirit of "knowing what is impossible" made him the spokesman of his generation and the next generation not only in France, but also in Europe and ultimately the world after the Second World War man's spiritual guide.