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Samuel Beckett, recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, was the second of two sons born into a Protestant family in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College. Afterwards he worked as a lecturer in London and Dublin.
Beckett published his first work, MURPHY, when he was 32 years old. He gained international fame with his 1952 play EN ATTENDANT GODOT (WAITING FOR GODOT).
Samuel Beckett died in Paris, France in 1989.
CHRONOLOGY
1906 He was born in Dublin, Ireland. (April 13)
1916 He entered Portora Royal School.
1923 He entered Trinity College.
1927 He received his B.A. from Trinity College.
1930 WHOROSCOPE
1933 His father died of a heart attack.
1938 MURPHY; He moved to France.
1950 His mother died.
1951 MOLLOY; MALONE MEURT
1952 EN ATTENDANT GODOT (WAITING FOR GODOT)
1953 L'INNOMMABLE (THE UNNAMABLE)
1955 NOUVELLES ET TEXTES POUR RIEN (STORIES AND TEXTS FOR NOTHING)
1957 FIN DE PARTIE (ENDGAME); ACTE SANS PAROLES I (ACT WITHOUT WORDS I
1959 He received the Prix Italia award.
1961 COMMENT C'EST (HOW IT IS); He married Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil.
1967 TETES MORTES, D'UN OUVRAGE ABANDONNE (FROM AN ABANDONED WORK); IMAGINATION MORTE IMAGINEZ (IMAGINATION DEAD IMAGINE)
1969 He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1970 PREMIER AMOUR (FIRST LOVE)
1977 ENDS AND ODDS: PLAYS AND SKETCHES
1978 PAS SUIVI DE QUATRE ESQUISSES (STEPS); FOUR SKETCHES
1979 POEMES (POEMS); ALL STRANGE GONE AWAY
1980 COMPANY; THE EXPELLED AND OTHER NOVELLAS
1981 ROCKABY AND OTHER PIECES
1982 THREE OCCASIONAL PIECES
1983 WORSTWARD HO; DISJECTA: MISCELLANEOUS WRITING AND A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT
1984 COLLECTED SHORTER PROSE 1945-1980
1986 COLLECTED POEMS 1930-1979
1989 NOHOW ON; He died in Paris, France. (December 22)
1990 AS THE STORY WAS TOLD: UNCOLLECTED AND LATE PROSE
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