Samuel
Beckett
was
born in Dublin in 1906. Educated at Trinty
College he moved to France
and became a lecturer in English in Paris. In 1930 he published a
volume of verse, Whoroscope (1930).
This was followed by a collection of short-stories, More
Pricks than Kicks (1934) and a novel, Murphy
(1930).
Success came to Beckett
after the Second World War. This included the
trilogy of novels, Molly (1951),
Malone Meurt (1951) and
L'Innommable (1953).
A leading exponent of the
Theatre of the Absurd, Beckett wrote the plays Waiting
for Godot (1953), Endgame
(1957), All That Fall (1957),
Krapp's Last Tape (1958),
Happy Days (1961), Play
(1963) and Come and Go (1966).
Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
Beckett's later plays included
Breath (1970), Not
I (1972) and Footfalls
(1976). Samuel
Beckett died
in 1989.
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