Samuel Beckett

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Nobel laureate in Literature dramatist essayist human novelist playwright poet short story writer theatre director translator

Samuel Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and Nobel laureate best known for his bleakly comic, minimalist works such as the play "Waiting for Godot."

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Samuel Beckett canonical 124

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Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ
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birthPlace Dublin Region ⓘ
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causeOfDeath respiratory failure ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship France ⓘ
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deathDate 1989-12-22 ⓘ
deathPlace France ⓘ
Paris ⓘ
educatedAt Trinity College Dublin ⓘ
employer École Normale (Paris) ⓘ
surface form: École Normale Supérieure
familyName Beckett ⓘ
fieldOfWork avant-garde literature ⓘ
drama ⓘ
fiction ⓘ
genre absurdist fiction ⓘ
experimental literature ⓘ
tragicomedy ⓘ
givenName Samuel ⓘ
influenced Edward Albee ⓘ
Harold Pinter ⓘ
Tom Stoppard ⓘ
influencedBy Dante Alighieri ⓘ
James Joyce ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
French ⓘ
militaryBranch French Resistance ⓘ
movement Theatre of the Absurd ⓘ
modernism ⓘ
postmodernism ⓘ
name Samuel Beckett self-link ⓘ
notableWork Endgame ⓘ
Happy Days ⓘ
How It Is ⓘ
Krapp's Last Tape ⓘ
Malone Dies ⓘ
Molloy ⓘ
Murphy ⓘ
The Unnamable ⓘ
Waiting for Godot ⓘ
Watt ⓘ
placeOfBurial Montparnasse Cemetery ⓘ
Paris ⓘ
residence Paris ⓘ
spouse Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil ⓘ

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