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Events on Tuesday 10 June 1947 1
1947Camus publishes The PlagueLa Peste appears in ParisAlbert Camus's novel La Peste was published by Gallimard in June 1947. It describes an epidemic in the Algerian city of Oran and is widely read as an allegory of the German occupation. The book was an immediate success and helped earn Camus the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature.