Samuel Beckett
13-Apr-1906
Ireland
Novelist
Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906, in Dublin, Ireland. During the 1930s and 1940s he wrote his first novels and short stories. He has written a trilogy of novels in the 1950s and popular plays such as Waiting for God. In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He most recent works included poetry and the collection of short stories and novels. He died on December 22, 1989 in Paris, France.