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."

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate in Literature → dramatist → essayist → human → novelist → playwright → poet → short story writer → theatre director → translator →
awardReceived	International Publishers' Prize → Nobel Prize in Literature →
birthDate	1906-04-13 →
birthPlace	County Dublin → Foxrock → Ireland →
causeOfDeath	respiratory failure →
countryOfCitizenship	France → Ireland →
deathDate	1989-12-22 →
deathPlace	France → Paris →
educatedAt	Trinity College Dublin →
employer	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 →
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 →

Referenced by (13)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
August Strindberg → Franz Kafka → James Joyce → Marcel Proust → T. S. Eliot →	influenced
Edward Albee → Tom Stoppard →	influencedBy
Montparnasse Cemetery →	burialPlaceOf
Dublin →	famousWriterAssociated
Trinity College Dublin →	hasNotableAlumnus
Samuel Beckett →	name
Faber and Faber →	publishedAuthor
Billie Whitelaw →	workedWith