Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin on 13 April 1906 and died in Paris on 22 December 1989. He is one of the most important writers of the 20th century and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Beckett is known to the general public mainly for his dramas, especially “Waiting for Godot”. Beckett’s oeuvre also includes novels, collections of poems, audio plays and works for film and television.
As of May 2020