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Samuel Beckett

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Profession
Playwright
Died
Dec 22, 1989
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
Ireland
About
Irish postmodernist writer who is most famous for his absurdist plays, Waiting for Godot and Endgame, and for novels such as Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.
Family
He was born in Dublin, Ireland to William Frank Beckett and Maria Jones Roe. In 1961, he married a French woman named Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, and he also had a long-lasting affair with BBC editor Barbara Bray.

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