Quick Facts About Samuel Beckett
- Born
- April 13, 1906
- Died
- December 22, 1989
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Profession
- Linguist
- Notable works
- En attendant Godot
- Known for
- Watt, Molloy, Waiting for Godot, The Unnamable, How It Is
- Spouse
- Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil
About Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre. As a major figure of Irish literature, he is best known for his tragicomedy play Waiting for Godot (1953). For his foundational contribution to both literature and theatre, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
Biography source:
Wikipedia
Awards & Honors
star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
Nobel Prize in Literature
Obie Award
Prix Formentor
Saoi
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin
Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin
