Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

1906 - 1989

Samuel Beckett was an Irish avant-garde playwright, poet, and novelist who offered the world works with a bleak, tragicomic view on human nature. As a young man, he assisted James Joyce while the latter wrote Finnegans Wake. After decades of relative obscurity, he rose to immediate prominence with the performance of Waiting for Godot in 1953. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. His most notable works include Murphy (1938), Molloy (1951), Malone Dies (1951), The Unnamable (1953), Waiting for Godot (1953), Watt (1953), Endgame (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958), and How It Is (1961).