Samuel Beckett biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Samuel Beckett

Author Name:

Samuel Beckett

Born As:

Samuel Barclay Beckett

Other Names:

Samuel Barclay Beckett

Born:

13 Mar 1906

Died:

22 Dec 1989




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Dramatist and novelist                          
Selected Works:

Theatre:

Eleutheria  - 1940s; published 1995
Waiting for Godot  - 1952
Act Without Words I  - 1956
Act Without Words II  - 1956
Endgame  - 1957
Krapp's Last Tape  - 1958
Rough for Theatre I  - late 1950s
Rough for Theatre II  - late 1950s
Happy Days  - 1960
Play  - 1963
Come and Go  - 1965
Breath  - 1969
Not I  - 1972
That Time  - 1975
Footfalls  - 1975
A Piece of Monologue  - 1980
Rockaby  - 1981
Ohio Impromptu  - 1981
Catastrophe  - 1982
What Where  - 1983

Radio:

All That Fall  - 1956
From an Abandoned Work  - 1957
Embers  - 1959
Rough for Radio I  - 1961
Rough for Radio II  - 1961
Words and Music  - 1961
Cascando  - 1962

Television:

Eh Joe  - 1965
Ghost Trio  - 1975
... but the clouds ...  - 1976
Quad I + II  - 1981
Nacht und Träume  - 1982
Beckett Directs Beckett  - 1988/92 The San Quentin Drama Workshop
Beckett on Film  - 2002 Hosted by Jeremy Irons, Produced by PBS
Cinema
Film  - 1965

Prose:

Novels:

Dream of Fair to Middling Women  - 1932; published 1992
Murphy  - 1938
Watt  - 1945; published 1953
Mercier and Camier  - 1946; published 1974
Molloy  - 1951
Malone Dies  - 1951
The Unnamable  - 1953
How It Is  - 1961

Novellas:

The Expelled  - 1946
The Calmative  - 1946
The End  - 1946
The Lost Ones  - 1971
Company  - 1980
Ill Seen Ill Said  - 1981
Worstward Ho  - 1983

Stories:

More Pricks Than Kicks  - 1934
First Love  - 1945
Stories and Texts for Nothing  - 1954
Fizzles  - 1976
Stirrings Still  - 1988

Non-fiction:

Proust  - 1931
Three Dialogues  - with Georges Duthuit and Jacques Putnam  - 1949
Disjecta  - 1929 - 1967
Dante...Bruno. Vico..Joyce

Poetry:

Whoroscope  - 1930
Echo's Bones and other Precipitates  - 1935
Collected Poems in English  - 1961
Collected Poems in English and French  - 1977
What is the Word  - 1989

Translations:

Anna Livia Plurabelle  - James Joyce, French translation by Beckett and others  - 1931
Negro: an Anthology  - Nancy Cunard, editor  - 1934
Anthology of Mexican Poems  - Octavio Paz, editor  - 1958
The Old Tune  - Robert Pinget  - 1963
What Is Surrealism?: Selected Essays  - André Breton  - various short pieces in the collection

                          
                          
Nobel Prize in Literature - 1969                          
Beckett family was originally spelled Becquet.