← Back to explore
Biography
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
Awards & recognition
- Saoi · 1985
- Obie Award · 1984
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1969
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 1968
- Obie Award · 1964
Show all 16 awards →
- Obie Award · 1962
- Prix Formentor · 1961
- Obie Award · 1960
- honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin · 1959
- Obie Award · 1958
- Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin · 1926
- star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1965 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1964 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1963 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1957 · nominated
