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LESSON 8 · The Quest for Meaning

PAUSE TO THINK

How old was Albert Camus when he won the Nobel Prize?

43 years old, one of the youngest literature laureates

Camus won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was deeply uncomfortable with the honor, feeling he had not yet earned it. He died just over two years later in a car accident at age 46.

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