Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett
Beckett in 1977
Born	Samuel Barclay Beckett 13 Apryle 1906(1906-04-13) Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
Dee'd	22 December 1989(1989-12-22) (aged 83) Paris, Fraunce
Pen name	Andrew Belis
Thrift	Novelist, playwricht, poet, theatre director, essayist
Naitionality	Erse
Alma mater	Trinity College Dublin
Genre	Drama, feection, poetry, screenplays, personal correspondence
Leeterar muivement	Modrenism
Notable warks	Murphy (1938) Molloy (1951) Malone Dies (1951) The Unnamable (1953) Waitin for Godot (1953) Watt (1953) Endgemme (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) Hou It Is (1961)
Notable awairds	Nobel Prize in Leeteratur 1969 Croix de Guerre 1945
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Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/; 13 Aprile 1906 – 22 December 1989) wis an Erse avant-garde novelist, playwricht, theatre director, an poet, who lived in Paris for maist o his adult life an wrote in baith Inglis an French.

Beckett's wark offers a bleak, tragicomic ootleuk on human exeestence, eften coupled wi black comedy an gallaes humour, an becam increasinly meenimalist in his later career. He is conseedert ane o the last modrenist writers, an ane o the key feegurs in whit Martin Esslin cried the "Theatre of the Absurd".

Beckett wis awairdit the 1969 Nobel Prize in Leeteratur "for his writin, that—in new forms for the novelle an drama—in the destitution o modren man acquires its elevation". He wis electit Saoi o Aosdána in 1984.