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When was Samuel Beckettās novel Watt published?
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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.
The novel Watt by the Irish author Samuel Beckett was published in 1953.12
Beckett wrote the work between 1942 and 1944 while he was in hiding in southern France during the German occupation.1