- 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
| Born: | 13 April 1906 Comment | | When did Samuel Beckett die? / Died | 22 December 1989 | | How many years did Samuel Beckett live? / Lived | 83 years | | Zodiac sign: | Aries |
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Samuel Beckett facts
- He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century
- Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career
- 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"
- 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
- " He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984
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