Samuel Beckett
Writing
9 credits
Born
Apr 13, 1906
Died
Dec 22, 1989 (83 years old)
Place of birth
Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
Biography
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded 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."
