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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Literature (114) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1960s (79) 1969 (10) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1900s (92) 1906 (11) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) Republic of Ireland (5) Dublin (2) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1980s (66) 1989 (8) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) France (51) Paris (25) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name S-Z (143) S (39) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name A-D (195) B (80) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name S-Z (69) S (10) Samuel (2) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 60 - 69 (252) 64 (34) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations (123) Media and Communication Workers (117) Writers and Editors (101) Writers and Authors (101) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) Republic of Ireland (6) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) France (92) Paris (73) École Normale Supérieure (20) Short-term academic staff (8) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards O-P (364) P (242) Prix Formentor (2) complete name: Samuel Beckett nobel prize: literature award year: 1969 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 was awarded to Samuel Beckett "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture birth name: Samuel Barclay Beckett given name: Samuel family name: Beckett pseudonym: Andrew Belis occupation: screenwriter occupation: writer occupation: poet occupation: playwright occupation: translator occupation: author occupation: artist occupation: film director occupation: novelist occupation: cricketer occupation: linguist notable work: Waiting for Godot notable work: The Unnamable notable work: How It Is notable work: Malone Dies notable work: Krapp's Last Tape notable work: Endgame notable work: Murphy notable work: Watt notable work: Molloy description: Samuel 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's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, 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. pronunciation: (/ˈbɛkɪt/) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1969/summary/> date birth: 1906 date death: 1989 usual name: Samuel Beckett
