Samuel Beckett
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 35 years ago |
Date of birth | April 13,1906 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Date of died | December 22,1989 |
Died | Paris |
France | |
Books | Malone Dies |
First Love | |
How It Is | |
Molloy | |
Murphy | |
The Unnamable | |
Watt | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Obie Award for Playwriting | |
Obie Award for Distinguished Plays | |
Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 | |
Obie Award for Best Foreign Play | |
Obie Award for Best Play | |
New York Drama Critics' Circle Special Citation | |
Spouse | Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil |
Parents | William Frank Beckett |
Maria Jones Roe | |
Plays | Waiting for Godot |
Endgame | |
Happy Days | |
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Breath | |
Born | Foxrock |
Ireland | |
Full name | Samuel Barclay Beckett |
Influences | James Joyce |
Albert Camus | |
Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Oscar Wilde | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 407739 |
Samuel Beckett Life story
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense.
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