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Born | Samuel Barclay Beckett 13 Apryle 1906 Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland |
Dee'd | 22 December 1989 Paris, Fraunce | (aged 83)
Pen name | Andrew Belis[1] |
Thrift | Novelist, playwricht, poet, theatre director, essayist |
Naitionality | Erse |
Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
Genre | Drama, feection, poetry, screenplays, personal correspondence[2] |
Leeterar muivement | Modrenism |
Notable warks | Murphy (1938) Molloy (1951) Malone Dies (1951) The Unnamable (1953) Waitin for Godot (1953) Watt (1953) Endgemme (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) Hou It Is (1961) |
Notable awairds | Nobel Prize in Leeteratur 1969 Croix de Guerre 1945 |
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Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/; 13 Aprile 1906 – 22 December 1989) wis an Erse avant-garde novelist, playwricht, theatre director, an poet, who lived in Paris for maist o his adult life an wrote in baith Inglis an French.
Beckett's wark offers a bleak, tragicomic ootleuk on human exeestence, eften coupled wi black comedy an gallaes humour, an becam increasinly meenimalist in his later career. He is conseedert ane o the last modrenist writers, an ane o the key feegurs in whit Martin Esslin cried the "Theatre of the Absurd".[3]
Beckett wis awairdit the 1969 Nobel Prize in Leeteratur "for his writin, that—in new forms for the novelle an drama—in the destitution o modren man acquires its elevation".[4] He wis electit Saoi o Aosdána in 1984.