Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Foxrock
- Educated at
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Awards
- 🏆 Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin🏆 star on Playwrights' Sidewalk🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature🏆 Obie Award
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Anything worse than what I do, without knowing what, or why, I have never been able to conceive, and that doesn’t surprise me, for I never tried. For had I been able to conceive something worse than w…"
"What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simpl…"
"Having heard, or more probably read somewhere, in the days when I thought I would be well advised to educate myself, or amuse myself, or stupefy myself, or kill time, that when a man in a forest think…"
"Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farthe…"
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Timeline
1906
Born
Birth1989
Died
Death
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