death_date pseudonym nationality birth_date signature genre alma_mater death_place influenced influences image occupation caption birth_place awards languages movement notableworks article_title birth_name
22 december 1989 andrew belis irish 13 april 1906 samuel beckett signature.svg drama correspondence , fiction , poetry , screenplays , personal trinity college dublin paris , france adorno carr coetzee davis delillo dick foucault havel ionesco johnson kane albee c. mccarthy mahon mamet vujčić nauman norton e. o'brien pettigrew auster pinter ruy-sánchez shepard stoppard badiou banville deleuze barthelme burroughs calvino dante yeats o'casey wilde sade descartes sterne democritus milton stéphane mallarmé geulincx kant berkeley johnson joyce proust racine schopenhauer j. m. synge samuel_beckett , pic , 1.jpg novelist essayist , playwright , poet , theatre director , beckett in 1977 foxrock , dublin , ireland nobel prize in literature 1969 croix de guerre 1945 english , french modernism '' -lrb- 1951 -rrb- '' malone dies '' -lrb- 1951 -rrb- murphy '' the unnamable '' -lrb- 1953 -rrb- '' waiting for '' godot '' -lrb- 1953 -rrb- '' watt '' -lrb- 1953 -lrb- -rrb- '' endgame '' -lrb- 1957 -rrb- '' krapp 's 1938 last tape '' -lrb- 1958 -rrb- '' how it is -rrb- '' -lrb- 1961 -rrb- '' molloy '' samuel beckett
 samuel barclay beckett
samuel beckett

samuel barclay beckett -lrb- ; 13 april 1906 -- 22 december 1989 -rrb- 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 .
his work offers a bleak , tragicomic outlook on human existence , often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour .
beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century .
he is considered one of the last modernists .
as an inspiration to many later writers , he is also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists .
he is one of the key writers in what martin esslin called the `` theatre of the absurd '' .
his work became increasingly minimalist in his later career .
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 '' .
he was elected saoi of aosdána in 1984 .
