Samuel Beckett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel Beckett

Irish novelist, playwright, and poet

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1906

Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1989

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, playwright, translator, author, artist, film director, novelist, cricketer, linguist

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.
A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, he wrote in both French and English. Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humor, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career.
He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd."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.

Roger Pic (1920–2001)
Description	French photographer
Date of birth/death	15 September 1920	3 December 2001
Location of birth	Paris
Authority control	: Q3439364 VIAF: 44303723 ISNI: 0000 0000 6303 9317 LCCN: nr96027134 SUDOC: 027071405 BNF: 119196315 WorldCat