Samuel Beckett
Known For: Writing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: April 13, 1906
Day of Death: December 22, 1989 (84 years old)
Place of Birth: 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."
