Samuel Beckett
Writing · Born Apr 13, 1906 · Died Dec 22, 1989 (83) · Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
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."
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Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
19888.0
Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
198810.0
Night and Dreams
198310.0
Quad I+II
19817.0
Happy Days
1979
He Joe
19796.0
Ghost Trio
1977
Not I
19736.6
He Joe
1966
Comédie
19668.7
Film
19657.0
Beckett Directs Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Movie8.0
