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Samuel Beckett. Samuel Barclay Beckett ( / ˈbɛkɪt / ⓘ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense.
Dec 22, 2019 · On 17 July 1989, Déchevaux-Dumesnil died, at the age of 88. A solemn Beckett attended the funeral and was never quite the same after he returned to the nursing home. On 6 December, Beckett...
Dec 27, 1989 · Samuel Beckett, a towering figure in drama and fiction who altered the course of contemporary theater, died in Paris on Friday at the age of 83. He died of respiratory problems in a Paris...
May 22, 2024 · Samuel Beckett (born April 13?, 1906, Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland—died December 22, 1989, Paris, France) was an author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
Aug 18, 2020 · By the late 1980s, Beckett was in failing health and had moved to a small nursing home. Suzanne, his wife, had died in July 1989. His life was confined to a small room where he would receive ...
Dec 26, 1989 · Published: Dec 26, 1989, 12:00 a.m. MST. View Comments. By Deseret News. Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, who created a world of everlasting despair and left theatergoers "Waiting for Godot," died at age 83 of respiratory failure and was buried Tuesday, his publisher said.
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Dec 27, 1989 · Dec. 27, 1989 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Samuel Beckett, the taciturn master of fiction and drama whose bleak poetic and darkly comedic works etched the pessimism of the human condition, has...
