SAMUEL BECKETT

1969 Nobel Laureate in Literature

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

1906-1989
Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland

• Waiting for Godot
• Happy Days: The Production Notebook of Samuel Beckett
• Krapp's Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces
• Endgame
• The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
• Collected Poems in English and French
• First Love and Other Shorts
• I Can't Go On, I'l Go On: A Selection from Samuel Beckett's Work
• Mercier and Camier
• Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable : Malone Dies ; The Unnamable (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
• Nohow On: Company, III Seen III Said, Worstward Ho: Three Novels
• Stories and Texts for Nothing
• Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Vol 1)
• Complete list of books by and about Samuel Beckett

• The Samuel Beckett Interviews
• The Samuel Beckett On-Line Resources and Links Page
• The Samuel Beckett Endpage
• Official award announcement and background
• Curriculum vitae
• Diploma

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• Obituary
• The Master of Gloom and a Sorrowful Joy
• My friend, Samuel Beckett by Israel Horovitz,1989
• Beckett remembered: 'Oh, all to end' by Robert Taylor,1989
• Shedding light on a dark and droll Irish master by Mark Harman, 1996
• Beckett's brightness on dark days by Askold Melnyczuk, 1996

• Informed discussion of two new Beckett biographies (submitted by Chris Mitchell)
• Krapp's Last Tape
• Waiting for Godot
• Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
• Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd (submitted by Katharena Eiermann)
• The Beckett International Foundation (submitted by Jackie Skinner)
• Apmonia: A Samuel Beckett Resource (submitted by Allen Ruch)
• SAMUEL BECKETT award prize (submitted by tajby)
• Beckett Samuel Biography (submitted by )
• Portrait of Samuel Beckett (submitted by artist - Justin Kempton)
• SAMUEL BECKETT bio (submitted by Stan)
• Samuel Beckett Quotes (submitted by Notable Quotes)
• Samuel Beckett Timeline (submitted by Theatre Database)
• Samuel Beckett Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
• existentialism and Samuel Beckett (submitted by Katharena Eiermann)
• Samuel Beckett. An introduction (submitted by Ian Mackean)
• Samuel Beckett Quotations (submitted by Literary Quotations)
• Historical info on Ulster, where Samuel Beckett grew up and was educated (submitted by Simon Williams)
• Irish Nobel Prize winners (submitted by PaddyLo)

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