Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, 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."
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🎬 Movies
How It Is
writer
2026
Waiting for Godot
writer
2025
Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
actor
2019
Krapp's Last Tape
writer
2007
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
writer
2003
Ohio Impromptu
writer
2002
Catastrophe
writer
2001
Play
writer
2001
A Piece of Monologue
writer
2001
Act Without Words I
writer
2001
Act Without Words II
writer
2001
Breath
writer
2001
Endgame
writer
2000
Krapp's Last Tape
writer
2000
What Where
writer
2000
Happy Days
writer
2000
Footfalls
writer
2000
Not I
writer
2000
Rockaby
writer
2000
Come and Go
writer
2000
Rough for Theatre I
writer
2000
Rough for Theatre II
writer
2000
That Time
writer
2000
O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro
writer
1976
📖 Books
Dream of fair to middling women
author
1992
I can't go on, I'll go on
author
1976
Dépeupleur
author
1972
Stories & texts for nothing
author
1967
Têtes-mortes
author
1967
Malone Dies
author
1962
Comment c'est
author
1961
Watt
author
1953
En attendant Godot
author
1952
Molloy
author
1951
Malone meurt
author
1947
Murphy
author
1947