Samuel Beckett: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Samuel Barclay Beckett
Born	April 13, 1906? • Ireland
Died	December 22, 1989 • Paris • France
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1969)
Notable Works	“All That Fall” • “Come and Go” • “Dream of Fair to Middling Women” • “Eh Joe!” • “Endgame” • “Film” • “Happy Days” • “Krapp’s Last Tape” • “Malone Dies” • “Molloy” • “More Pricks than Kicks” • “Murphy” • “Play” • “Stories and Texts for Nothing” • “The Unnamable” • “Waiting for Godot” • “Watt” • “Whoroscope”
Movement / Style	Theatre of the Absurd