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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 was born on April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland.1