Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

Awarded the Prize “for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation.”

Irish dramatist novelist. Beckett was born in Dublin, Irel on April 13, 1906. He received his B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin. He became an English Reader at école Normale Supérieure, Paris in 1928 a French Reader at Trinity College, Dublin in 1930. He moved to France in 1938 began to write in French in 1945. Beckett died in Paris on December 22, 1989.
Major Works:
Molloy (1951); Waiting for Godot (1952); The Lost Ones (1972); Malone Dies (1956)