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   Samuel Barclay Beckett ( / ˈbɛkɪt / ⓘ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) 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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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Samuel-BeckettSamuel Beckett | Irish Playwright & Nobel Laureate | Britannica

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   May 22, 2024 · Samuel Beckett was an author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both French and English and is perhaps best known for his plays, especially En attendant Godot (1952; Waiting for Godot).

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   Learn about the life and works of Samuel Beckett, the Irish writer and Nobel laureate who pioneered the Theatre of the Absurd. Explore his novels, plays, essays, and quotes with SparkNotes study guides.

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   What did Samuel Barclay Beckett write?

   • He wrote a trilogy of novels in the 1950s as well as famous plays like Waiting for Godot. In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His later works included poetry and short story collections and novellas. Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on April 13, 1906, in Dublin, Ireland.

   Samuel Beckett: Biography, Novelist, Playwright, Poet

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   What is Samuel Beckett best known for?

   • His experiences during World War II—insecurity, confusion, exile, hunger, deprivation—came to shape his writing. In his most famous work, the drama Waiting for Godot, he examines the most basic foundations of our lives with strikingly dark humor. MLA style: Samuel Beckett – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024.

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   Who was Samuel Barclay Beckett?

   • His later works included poetry and short story collections and novellas. Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on April 13, 1906, in Dublin, Ireland. His father, William Frank Beckett, worked in the construction business and his mother, Maria Jones Roe, was a nurse.

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   How did Samuel Beckett die?

   • His life was confined to a small room where he would receive visitors and write. He died on December 22, 1989, in a hospital of respiratory problems just months after his wife. Irish playwright, novelist, and poet Samuel Beckett was a literary legend of the 20th century. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1906, he was educated at…

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6. www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › samuel-beckettSamuel Beckett | Poetry Foundation

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   Learn about the life and achievements of Samuel Beckett, a Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. Explore his themes of existentialism, absurdity, and human condition in his famous works like Waiting for Godot and The Unnamable.

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   Aug 18, 2020 · 20th century Irish novelist, playwright and poet Samuel Beckett penned the play 'Waiting for Godot.' In 1969, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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9. www.nobelprize.org › prizes › literatureSamuel Beckett – Facts - NobelPrize.org

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   Learn about the life and work of Samuel Beckett, the Irish-born writer who won the Nobel Prize for his novel and drama in new forms. Explore his biography, prize motivation, and major works such as Waiting for Godot.

10. samuelbeckettsociety.org › biographyBiography – The Samuel Beckett Society

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    Samuel Beckett. Samuel Barclay Beckett was born without difficulty at Cooldrinach in Foxrock, County Dublin, on 13 April 1906, but grew old enough to fill the air with many different cries. He was the second of two sons of a middle-class Protestant couple (his father managed a surveying firm) and grew up away from the rebellion waged nearby.