Which award did Samuel Beckett receive for his resistance work?

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Samuel Beckett, 1965 — Samuel Beckett Irish playwright, author, and critic Samuel Beckett, known for his plays on existential themes, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

For his work with the French resistance during World War II, Samuel Beckett was awarded the Croix de Guerre.1

Beckett joined an underground resistance group in 1941. Following the arrest of several members of his group by the Gestapo in 1942, he went into hiding in the unoccupied zone of France until the country's liberation.1