Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett was born April 13, 1906
Nobel winner, Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett was born April 13, 1906.
Writer of intriguing plays that challenged audiences and bedevilled university students for decades.
Samuel Beckett and Pair of Boots
From the Irish Nobel Prize Winners series
Issued by Ireland in 1994
Samuel Beckett
Issued by Sweden in 2004
Designer: Gustav Malmfors
Engraver: Lars Sjööblom
Samuel Beckett produced his most important works—four novels, two dramas, a collection of short stories, essays, and art criticism—during an intensely creative period in the late 1940s. Irishman Beckett had settled in France and wrote in both French and English. His experiences during World War II—insecurity, confusion, exile, hunger, deprivation—came to shape his writing. In his most famous work, the drama Waiting for Godot, he examines the most basic foundations of our lives with strikingly dark humor.
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