Samuel Beckett

Samuel BECKETT (1906-1989, Ireland) was a writer, dramatist and poet. After graduating from Dublin's Trinity College, he settled in Paris, where he worked with James Joyce. As a member of the French Resistance, Beckett was forced to leave Paris, but returned after the war to write his most important works, notably En attendant Godot (1949), Molloy (1951), Malone meurt (1951) and Fin de partie (1957). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 for a body of work that is stark, fundamentally minimalist, and deeply cynical about the human condition.