Samuel Beckett was one of the most unique and powerful voices of the Twentieth Century. Born in Foxrock, Dublin in 1906 he "suffered an eventless childhood", as he describes it himself.
After attending Trinity College, Dublin he left Ireland and moved to Paris, a city he would, in time, call home. It was in Paris that his lifelong friendship with James Joyce began. Here, also, he fell in with a group of avant-garde artists.
Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, twenty years before his death at the age of 83. He is buried in Montparnasse with his wife Susanne.
Associated with the Theatre of the Absurd he employed a minimalist approach and his "Waiting for Godot" is still as fresh and challenging as theatre can ever be.
Some works by Beckett
- Waiting for Godot
- Endgame
- Happy Days
- Krapp's Last Tape
- Malone Dies
- Molloy
- Murphy
- Watt
- Not I