Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)

Mr Samuel Beckett (Male)

Nationality: Irish

Author

Born: 13 April 1906

Died: 22 December 1989

Novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. Beckett travelled through Europe in the 1930s, joined the French Resistance in 1940 and settled in Paris after the war. He first made an impact with a trilogy of novels written in French: Molloy (1951); Malone meurt (1951), and L'innommable (1953) though it was the reception of the play En attendant Godot that was the start of his international reputation. The premiere of Godot was directed by Roger Blin in Paris in 1953, and Blin plays the role of Pozzo alongside Jean Martin as Lucky. A decade later, Blin and Martin mounted the French premiere of Pinter's The Caretaker (Le Gardien), which was the cause of the first meeting between Pinter and Beckett (see A Wake for Sam).