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Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989)
Nationality: Irish | Periods: Irish: 20th Century |
Novelist and playwright, best known for Waiting for Godot, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
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Biographical sites about Samuel Beckett
- Beckett Timeline
- https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/the-samuel-beckett-endpage/about/about-beckett/timeline/
- This extremely detailed chronology breaks Samuel Beckett’s life down firs by year and then reflects items in his life and events, materials that he is working on, and items that he publishes.
- Contains: Timeline
- Keywords: life, history, biography
- [Chapter One]
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/cronin-beckett.html
- This first chapter from a biography on Beckett discusses the author’s childhood.
- Contains: Extensive Bio
- Author: Anthony Cronin
- From: Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist Chapter 1; HarperCollinsPublishers: 1997
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- Samuel Beckett is Dead at 83; His ‘Godot’ Changed Theater
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/reviews/20046.html
- “Samuel Beckett, a towering figure in drama and fiction who altered the course of contemporary theater, died in Paris on Friday at the age of 83. He died of respiratory problems in a Paris hospital, where he had been moved from a nursing home. He was buried yesterday at the Montparnasse cemetery after a private funeral.”
- Contains: Obituary
- Author: Mel Gussow
- From: The New York Times December 27, 1989
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- Short Biography of Samuel Beckett
- https://samuelbeckettsociety.org/biography/
- “Samuel Barclay Beckett was born without difficulty at Cooldrinach in Foxrock, County Dublin, on 13 April 1906, but grew old enough to fill the air with many different cries.”
- Contains: Full Bio, Pictures
- Author: Benjamin Strong
- Keywords: life, history, biography
Other sites about Samuel Beckett
- More on Samuel Beckett
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/reviews/970803.03dickstt.html#1
- “News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times.”
- Contains: Commentary
- From: The New York Times on the Web
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- The Nobel Prize for Literature–1969
- http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1969/press.html
- “Mix a powerful imagination with a logic in absurdum, and the result will be either a paradox or an Irishman. If it is an Irishman, you will get the paradox into the bargain. Even the Nobel Prize in Literature is sometimes divided. Paradoxically, this has happened in 1969, a single award being addressed to one man, two languages and a third nation, itself divided.”
- Contains: Awards
- Author: Karl Ragnar Gierow
- From: Nobel Foundation
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- The Samuel Beckett Endpage
- https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/the-samuel-beckett-endpage/
- “Begun 26 November 1996, The Samuel Beckett Endpage is intended as a multiple resource site for all those interested in the lifeand works of Samuel Beckett.”
- Contains: Full Bio, Pictures, Commentary, Criticism, Webliography
- Author: Porter Abbott and Benjamin Strong
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- The Samuel Beckett On-Line Resources and Links Page
- https://samuelbeckettsociety.org/links/
- This page on Samuel Beckett allows you to access reviews of his works, reviews of books about him, articles and papers discussing his works, interviews, online texts, and many more resources on Beckett.
- Contains: Criticism, Commentary, Sketch, Pictures, Bibliography, Webliography, Works Available, Interview
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Last Updated Apr 29, 2013