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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 decided to settle in Paris in 1937.1
While he had previously lived in the city starting in 1928 to work as a reader in English at the Ăcole Normale SupĂ©rieure, he returned to Ireland in 1930 before eventually choosing to make Paris his permanent home later in the decade. Following his service in the French Resistance during World War II, he returned to Paris once more in the winter of 1945.1