Albert Camus was a Nobel Prize-winning author and philosopher who developed the concept of 'Absurdism.' He argued that humanity has an innate search for meaning, but the universe is coldly indifferent and offers none. In his famous essay 'The Myth of Sisyphus,' he uses the Greek figure condemned to roll a rock up a hill for eternity as a metaphor for the human condition. Camus famously concludes that 'one must imagine Sisyphus happy,' suggesting that we find meaning through the very act of rebellion against the absurd. His novels 'The Stranger' and 'The Plague' explore these themes through a stark, journalistic prose style. Despite being often grouped with Existentialists like Jean-Paul Sartre, Camus eventually distanced himself from them, focusing more on the themes of sunlight, sensory experience, and the limits of political ideology.