Ève Morisi, Professor of Literatures in French and Political Humanities, was recently interviewed by the BBC World Service about the National Library of France's acquisition of the complete archives of Albert Camus (1913-1960), one of most prominent writers and politically-committed intellectuals of the 20th century, and the laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. This is the most expensive acquisition to date in the history of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France--9 million euros.
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