Person    | Male  Born 13/4/1906  Died 22/12/1989

Samuel Beckett

Categories: Literature, Seriously Famous, Theatre

Countries: France

Dramatist and author. Born Dublin as Samuel Barclay Beckett. Lived in Paris most of his life. His plays include: Waiting for Godot (1953) and Krapp's Last Tape (1958). Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969, the only Nobel literature laureate to have played first class cricket.

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