- Born
- Died
- Birth nameSamuel Barclay Beckett
- Nickname
- Bemuel Sackett
- Samuel Beckett is an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.
A resident of Paris for most of his life, he wrote in both French and English.
Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragi-comic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humor, 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- SpouseSuzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil(March 25, 1961 - July 17, 1989) (her death)
- Black Turtleneck
- He was neighbors with the family of famed wrestler Andre The Giant. Beckett would drive Andre to school when he too grew large for the school bus.
- During World War II he fought in the French Resistance against the Nazi occupation. The Nazis found out about him and put a price on his head.
- Buried in the exclusive "Montparnasse" cemetery Paris, France.
- The University of Dublin -Trinity College named its theater after him. It is the campus theater of the University's School of Drama.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, volume 61, pg. 64-73. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1998.
- [on Delphine Seyrig] She is lovely.
- Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Walter [Lowenfels], all I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.
- The dead die hard, they are trespassers on the beyond, they must take the place as they find it, the shafts and manholes back into the muck, till such time as the lord of the manor incurs through his long acquiescence a duty of care in respect of them.
- Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honored name.
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