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Samuel Beckett

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

Biography

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."

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland

About

Writing, Male

Birthday

13 April 1906, 119 years old

Known For

Filmography