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Samuel Beckett
Irish playwright, author, and critic Samuel Beckett, known for his plays on existential themes, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
Samuel Beckett met James Joyce in 1928 while working as a reader in English at the Ăcole Normale SupĂ©rieure in Paris. Following their meeting, Beckett joined Joyce's social circle. Although it is a frequently repeated claim, it is inaccurate to state that Beckett served as Joyce's secretary.1