![]() An indisputable expert on the Algerian question, he adapted Camus’s novel The Stranger as well as his new interpretation of The First Man. ![]() ![]() In 1987, he began his Notebooks from the Orient, a series of panoramic portraits depicting the history of the French presence in Algeria, for which he was awarded the Historia Prix Spécial. Jacques Ferrandez was born in Algeria in 1955. After ten years as a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, Smith now lives in New York. Her translation of Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise won the French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. Sandra Smith is the translator of all twelve novels by Irene Nemirovsky a new translation of Camus' L'Etranger (The Outsider, Penguin UK) and The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times (Liveright). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. A novelist, playwright, and essayist, he is most famous for his novels The Stranger and The Plague. During World War II, he joined the Resistance movement in Paris, then became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Combat during the Liberation. ![]() Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. ![]()
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