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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20071018
Author:International Herald Tribune

International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
10-18-2007
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1957: Camus Wins Nobel Prize
Byline: International Herald Tribune
Edition: 2
Section: NEWS

STOCKHOLM: --

Albert Camus, 43-year-old Frenchman born in Algeria, won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature today.

Of all Nobel Prize-winners, only Rudyard Kipling was younger and that by only a year. The prize this year tops $42,000, a record, well above what such winners as Sir Winston Churchill and Ernest Hemingway received. The revolving fund, established originally by Alfred Nobel, inventor of ...

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