Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. His work became increasingly minimalist as his career progressed, involving more aesthetic and linguistic experimentation, with techniques of stream of consciousness repetition and self-reference. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the Theatre of the Absurd.

13 April 1906

Born on the same birth date (13 April 1906): Bud Freeman

Born on the same birth day (13 April): Al Green • Ben Nighthorse Campbell • Carles Puyol • Dadasaheb Torne • Danie Mellor • David Robinson (philanthropist) • Edward Bruce (New Deal) • Gianni Marzotto • Heinz Baas • Herbert Yardley • Jean-Jacques Laffont • Jim McNab • Leszek Borysiewicz • Michael Eisen • Nellie McKay • Richard Trevithick • Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy • Rudi Völler

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