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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 went into hiding in 1942 after receiving news that members of the underground resistance group he had joined in 1941 had been arrested by the Gestapo.1
Following these arrests, Beckett immediately fled to the unoccupied zone of France to evade capture, where he remained until the country's liberation, supporting himself by working as an agricultural laborer. For his courageous efforts in the resistance, he was later awarded the Croix de Guerre.1