Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His works offer a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.

Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, 13 April 1906 to William Frank Beckett and Maria Jones Roe, who married in 1901. Beckett had one elder brother Frank Edward Beckett.

Beckett studied French, Italian, and English at Trinity College, Dublin from 1923 to 1927. Beckett graduated as a bachelor and briefly worked as a teacher at Campbell College in Belfast

Beckett eventually became restless and began travelling to London, France, Germany and Italy.He returned to Ireland in 1937 and continued his writing experience.

Among his works are:Whoroscope,  More Pricks Than Kicks, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates, Murphy and others.

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