This article is about the Irish writer. For the Quantum Leap character, see Sam Beckett. For the vessel of the Irish Naval Service named after Beckett, see LÉ Samuel Beckett (P61).
Samuel Beckett
Beckett in 1977
Born
Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-04-13)13 April 1906 Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
Died
22 December 1989(1989-12-22) (aged 83) Paris, France
Resting place
Cimetière du Montparnasse
Occupation
Novelist
playwright
Language
English
French
Education
Portora Royal School
Trinity College Dublin
Notable works
Murphy
Watt
Molloy
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
Waiting for Godot
Endgame
Krapp's Last Tape
How It Is
Happy Days
Notable awards
Croix de Guerre (1945)
Prix International (1961)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1969)
Spouse
Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil
(m. 1961; died 1989)
Signature
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. His work became increasingly minimalist as his career progressed, involving more aesthetic and linguistic experimentation, with techniques of stream of consciousness repetition and self-reference. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the Theatre of the Absurd.[1]
A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, Beckett wrote in both French and English. During the Second World War, Beckett was a member of the French Resistance group Gloria SMH (Réseau Gloria) and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1949.[2] He 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".[3] In 1961 he shared the inaugural Prix International with Jorge Luis Borges. He was the first person to be elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.
^Cakirtas, O. Developmental Psychology Rediscovered: Negative Identity and Ego Integrity vs. Despair in Samuel Beckett's Endgame. International Journal of Language Academy.Volume 2/2 Summer 2014 p. 194/203. http://www.ijla.net/Makaleler/1990731560_13.%20.pdf Archived 25 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
^Davies, William (2020). Samuel Beckett and the Second World War. Bloomsbury. pp. 31–50.
^"The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969". Nobel Foundation. 7 October 2010. Archived from the original on 30 May 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
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