Biography
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), born near Dublin into a Protestant family, was one of the supreme figures of twentieth-century literature and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1969. Beckett lived most of his adult life in Paris, writing in French (he later translated his own work to English). He served in the French Resistance during the Second World War. His postwar novels—Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable—transformed modern prose. His plays transformed modern theatre: Waiting for Godot (1953), Endgame (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958), Happy Days (1961), and the minimalist late works including Not I, Rockaby, and Footfalls continued compressing dramatic form to its essentials. Beckett also composed radio plays, teleplays, and a single film (Film, 1965, with Buster Keaton). He died in Paris in 1989, months after his wife Suzanne, and is buried with her at Cimetière du Montparnasse.
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