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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was a Irish novelist and dramatist, who wrote in French and English "En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot" in 1952 is possibly the best-known example of "Theatre of the Absurd" (in which life is taken to be meaningless).

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This genre is taken to further extremes in "Fin de PartietEndgame" in 1957 and Happy Days 1961.

Samuel Beckett won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

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Tags: novelist, playwright, theatre, director

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