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Samuel Beckett
Awards: Croix de Guerra, 1945 which is
a French Military decoration;
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969
Born: 13/04/1906 which was a Good Friday in
Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
Died: 22/12/1989 in Paris, France
Language: English
Nationality: Irish
Samuel Beckett was an Irish playwright, novelist,
poet who during most part of his creative career stayed in Paris
and wrote under penname Andrew Belis. His father was a surveyor
and mother a nurse. Samuel was a natural athlete and excelled in
cricket-he was a left-handed batsman and a medium-pace bowler and
represented Dublin University.
After schooling, Beckett joined Trinity
College, Dublin and studied English, French & Italian and graduated in
1927 after studying from 1923-1927. After completion of study, he was
in a teaching assignment at Campbell College, Belfast followed by
Lectureship in Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. In 1930, he returned
to Trinity College as lecturer only to resign one year later in
1931.He wrote his first novel in 1932 which met with lukewarm
response.Murphy was published in 1938 and Beckett translated it
into French.
Beckett wrote plays,novels, short
stories,poems and introduced experimental writing in literature. His
most famous work was "Waiting for the Godot". Beckett wrote both in
English & French.
Major Influence: James Joyce, Carl Jung
Major Works: Murphy(1938), Molloy(1951),The
Unnamable(1953), Waiting for Godot(1953), Watt(1953),
Endgame(1957), Whoroscope(1930), Selected Poems 1930 -
1989 (2009)
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