Samuel Beckett was a renowned Irish author, critic, playwright, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both French and English. He was born on a Good Friday on 13th April 1906, in Ireland.
In 1928, Samuel Beckett moved to Paris, and the city quickly won his heart. During World War II, Beckett was living in Paris. He joined the underground movement, and fought for the resistance until 1942. He was forced to flee with his French-born wife to the unoccupied zone. In 1945, after the liberation, he began his most prolific period as a writer.
He authored ‘Eleutheria’, ‘Waiting for Godot’, ‘Endgame’, the novels ‘Molloy’, ‘Malone Dies’, ‘The Unnameable’, and ‘Mercier and Camier’, two books of short stories, and a book of criticism. His experiences during World War II – insecurity, exile, hunger – came to shape his writing.
In his most famous work, ‘Waiting for Godot’, he examines the most basic foundations of our lives with strikingly dark humour. Beckett died on 22nd December, 1989.
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