French literature prize goes to Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud
Earlier this week, the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF, in English “International Organization of Francophone Countries”) announced the latest winner of its prestigious literary prize: Kamel Daoud, Algerian author… Read more »
J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI files on Sartre and Camus
In Prospect Magazine this week, Andy Martin writes about the files that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover kept on both Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus after 1945. Sartre was involved in… Read more »
This week in 1913: Camus is born, Hitler paints a picture, and Kafka takes two trains
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »
Happy 100th birthday, Albert Camus
November 7 is the 100th anniversary of Albert Camus’ birth. The author of The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, among others, Camus remains a huge presence in French literature,… Read more »