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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Writing • 1906-04-13 • Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland

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."

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Film7.0

Film

1965

Waiting for Godot7.1

Waiting for Godot

2001

Krapp's Last Tape7.4

Krapp's Last Tape

2000

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget7.3

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

2013

Catastrophe6.4

Catastrophe

2001

Endgame7.3

Endgame

2000

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