About Camus
Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French philosopher, author, playwright, journalist and political activist.
He is best known for his novels The Stranger (L'Étranger), The Plague (La Peste) and The Fall (La Chute); and his philosophical essays The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe) and The Rebel (L'Homme révolté).
In 1957, he was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
About the Society
Founded in 2005, the Albert Camus Society (ACS) is an international organisation made up of the Albert Camus societies of the UK, US and Poland. Together we hold a joint annual conference and publish the Journal of Camus Studies (JCS).
The ACS exists to promote scholarship on the life and work of Albert Camus by providing an international platform to share, exchange and debate ideas and research in order to explore and examine the thought of Albert Camus and his contemopraries.
The ACS aims to bring together, from within and outside academia, all persons interested in the work and ideas of Albert Camus.
The purpose of the ACS shall be served by the following:
Holding an annual international conference
Publishing annually the Journal of Camus Studies
Maintaining and updating the society website
Liaising with any other societies, institutions, publishers, and the media that have an interest in furthering awareness of the work and ideas of Albert Camus