Samuel Beckett
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1969for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation
- Citizenship
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Ireland - Languages
- English, French
- date of birth
- 4/13/1906
- place of birth
- Dublin, Foxrock
- date of death
- 12/22/1989
- place of death
- Paris, 14th arrondissement of Paris
- Lived
- 83 years
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- educated at
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- Trinity College, Dublin
- academic major: French
- academic degree: bachelor's degree
- academic major: English-language literature
- academic major: Italian
- start time: 1923
- end time: 1927
- Portora Royal School
- Trinity College, Dublin
- member of
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- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- start time: 1968
- Aosdána
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- notable work
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- Endgame
- Murphy
- The Unnamable
- Watt
- Krapp's Last Tape
- Molloy
- Malone Dies
- How It Is
- Waiting for Godot
- field of work
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- drama
- occupation
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- translator
- playwright
- film director
- novelist
- cricketer
- linguist
- video artist
- French resistance fighter
- writer
- screenwriter
- teacher
- intellectual
- poet
- cinematographer
- draftsperson
- filmmaker
- work location
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- Paris