Samuel Beckett - Wikipedia
WEBSamuel Barclay Beckett (/ ˈ b ɛ k ɪ t / ⓘ; 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 .
Samuel Beckett | Irish Playwright & Nobel Laureate | Britannica
WEBMay 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).
Samuel Beckett: Biography, Novelist, Playwright, Poet
WEBAug 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.
Samuel Beckett | Poetry Foundation
WEBIrish playwright, novelist, and poet Samuel Beckett was a literary legend of the 20th century. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1906, he was educated at Trinity College. During the 1930s and 1940s he wrote his first novels and short stories.
Biography – The Samuel Beckett Society
WEBThe Samuel Beckett Society is an international organization of scholars, students, directors, actors and others who share an interest in the work of Samuel Beckett. Honorary Trustees are Edward Beckett, J. M. Coetzee, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Lois More Overbeck, John Fletcher and James Knowlson.
Samuel Beckett Biography, Works, and Quotes | SparkNotes
WEBSamuel Beckett Biography. Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He befriended the famous Irish novelist James Joyce, and his first published work was an essay on Joyce. Between 1951 and 1953, Beckett wrote his most famous novels, the trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnameable.
Samuel Beckett summary | Britannica
WEBSamuel Beckett, (born April 13?, 1906, Foxrock, Co. Dublin, Ire.—died Dec. 22, 1989, Paris, France), Irish playwright. After studying in Ireland and traveling, he settled in Paris in 1937. During World War II he supported himself as a farmworker and joined the underground resistance.
Samuel Beckett - Existentialism, Absurdism, Theatre | Britannica
WEBSamuel Beckett - Existentialism, Absurdism, Theatre: Beckett’s writing reveals his own immense learning. It is full of subtle allusions to a multitude of literary sources as well as to a number of philosophical and theological writers.
Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of Resistance - JSTOR Daily
WEBJan 6, 2019 · The dark, absurdist humor of Samuel Beckett's work was directly informed by his time in the French Resistance during World War II.
Samuel Beckett – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
WEBThe Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 was awarded to Samuel Beckett "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation"
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