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ALBERT CAMUS (1913-60). The Algerianborn French novelist and Nobel laureate. Dubbed the ‘master of the absurd’, the author of L’Étranger (The Outsider) and La Peste (The Plague) was a keen amateur sportsman who once said: ‘All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.’ A chain smoker, he named his cat Cigarette. HERMAN MANKIEWICZ (1897-1953). The Oscar-winning U.S. screenwriter is best known for writing or co-writing the screenplays for hits such as Citizen Kane and It’s A Wonderful World. He was the first of several hired to pen The Wizard Of Oz and came up with the idea of starting the film in black and white before it burst into colour, but never received a credit for his work.