Writer, Philosopher, Novelist, Playwright, Journalist and Essayist

Albert Camus was the citizen who essentially said: ‘Life doesn't make sense, but relax and enjoy it’. He was born in 1913 in French Algeria, grew up poor and with a razor-sharp intelligence, which was enough for him to defy fate.

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He became a writer, philosopher, journalist, novelist, playwright, essayist and certainly one of the main figures of existentialism - even though he spent his life denying his membership of this club. In 1957 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, probably making Sartre jealous.

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Among his most famous works are The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, which helped generations of anguished people pretend they understood philosophy. He died in 1960 in a car accident.