Author results for "Albert"

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Adalbert Stifter

Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while remaining almost entirely unknown to English readers. **Source**: Adalbert Stifter on Wikipedia.

Albert Brooks

American actor, writer, director and comedian

Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"

Albert Caraco

Albert Chen

Albert Cohen

Albert Cossery

Albert Costa

Albert Derolez

Albert Drach

Albert E. Dien

Albert Einstein

Albert Espinosa

Albert Flocon

Albert Goldbarth

Albert Hourani

Albert J. Bernstein

Albert J. Beveridge

Albert J. Raboteau

Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock was an American journalist/essayist. He was primarily a social critic, penning works opposing centralization, regulation, the income tax, and mandatory education. Today, he is seen as a major influence on the modern American libertarian movement.

Albert Johnson

Albert Memmi

Albert Mudrian

Albert O. Hirschman

Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune (December 21, 1872 – February 18, 1942) was an American writer, dog breeder, and journalist. He was popular for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collies.

Albert Rutherford

Albert Sánchez Piñol

Albert Sánchez Piñol (Barcelona, 11 de juliol de 1965) és un antropòleg, africanista i escriptor català. La major part de la seva obra està escrita en llengua catalana. És membre del Centre d'Estudis Africans i ha col·laborat en la redacció d'anuaris d'enciclopèdies interactives. La seva primera novel·la, *La pell freda* (2002), li va donar un gran reconeixement del públic i la crítica. Entre les seves obres també destaquen *Pandora al Congo* (2005) i *Victus* (2012). ---------- Albert Sánchez Piñol (Barcelona, 11 de juliol de 1965) és un antropòleg, africanista i escriptor català. La major part de la seva obra està escrita en llengua catalana. És membre del Centre d'Estudis Africans i ha col·laborat en la redacció d'anuaris d'enciclopèdies interactives. La seva primera novel·la, *La pell freda* (2002), li va donar un gran reconeixement del públic i la crítica. Entre les seves obres també destaquen *Pandora al Congo* (2005) i *Victus* (2012).

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Speer