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Samuel Beckett

Also known as Samuel Barclay Beckett, Andrew Belis, Sam Beckett, Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe, Samuel Beḳeṭ

Irish writer (1906–1989)

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Samuel Beckett was an Irish writer, linguist, film director, and screenwriter. Born Samuel Barclay Beckett in Foxrock, Dublin, on 13 April 1906, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He resided in County Dublin and held citizenship in the Republic of Ireland. Beckett participated in World War II and was a member of Aosdána and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable works include *Murphy*, *Molloy*, *Malone Dies*, and *The Unnamable*. He was associated with the Nouveau Roman movement.

Beckett was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection. He died in the 14th arrondissement of Paris on 22 December 1989 and is buried at Montparnasse Cemetery. His works have been described by sources such as UbuWeb. He is similar to artists including James Joyce and T.S. Eliot. Quotes attributed to him include, "The only sin is the sin of being born."

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Person · Open Library

Born: 13 April 1906
Died: 22 December 1989
Works: 942

Top works

The Unnamable
Anthology of Mexican Poetry
Seven Plays of the Modern Theater with an Introduction By Harold Clurman (Text Edition)
Anthology of Mexican Poetry
Bram van Velde

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Film & TV

Writing · Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland

Samuel Barclay Beckett 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. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution…

Known for

Barney's Wall — Self (archive footage)2019
Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett — Self (Archive)2019
Notfilm — Self (archive footage)2015
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters — Self (archive footage)2002
Waiting for Beckett — Self1993
Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence1987
Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby' — Self (archive footage)1983
Beckett in Berlin — Self1969
Samuel Beckett - Mute Interview — Self1969
If I Had Four Dromedaries — Self (photo)1966

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1906
Active to: 1989

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,923
Total plays: 24,156

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,887x
Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,728x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,971x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,897x
Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,383x

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Quotes

“Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.”
“The only sin is the sin of being born.”
“If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.”
“I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.”
“I think the next little bit of excitement is ﬂying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.”
“The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1969
“for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation”

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Works in European collections

3 objects attributed to Samuel Beckett, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Waiting for Godot

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Encyclopedic overview

Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/ ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre. As a major figure of Irish literature, he is best known for his tragicomedy play Waiting for Godot (1953). For his foundational contribution to both literature and theatre, Beckett received 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."

During his early career, Beckett worked as a literary critic and commentator, and in 1930 he took up a role as a lecturer in Dublin. He wrote his first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women in 1932, which influenced many of his later works, but it was not published until after his death. Around this time, Beckett also began studying artistic expressions and art history, particularly of paintings displayed at the National Gallery of Ireland. He was a close friend of the Irish writer James Joyce, and cited him as a major inspiration for his works. As a resident of Paris for most of his adult life, Beckett wrote in both French and English, sometimes under the pseudonym Andrew Belis. His later literary works, especially his plays, became increasingly austere and minimalistic as his career progressed, involving more aesthetic and linguistic experimentation, with techniques of stream of consciousness, repetition and self-reference. During the Second World War, Beckett became a member of the French Resistance group Gloria SMH (Réseau Gloria) and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1949.

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