INTELLIGENT LIFE MAGAZINE SEPT/OCT
17 Oct 1957, Stockholm, Sweden — French writer Albert Camus, author of The Plague and The Fall, is winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. Camus was cited for « his important literary production which, with clear sighted earnestness, illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times. » Camus was the second youngest author selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Literature for the international prize. — Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
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