January 4

In literary history

• 1960Albert Camus died in a car crash at forty-six, killed instantly when the vehicle struck a tree near Paris. A return train ticket was found in his coat pocket; he had been persuaded to travel by car instead.

Writers born on January 4

• Brothers Grimm (1785)

The Daily Canon for January 4

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard (1984).