Samuel

Beckett

Barclay

BORN

On 13 April 1906At Cooldrinagh house Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland

DIED

On 22 December 1989 (aged 83)Paris, France

Pen name : Andrew Belis Occupation : Novelist,

playwright, poet, essayistLanguage : English, FrenchNationality : IrishGenres : Drama, fictional

prose, poetry, screenplays (experimental, absurdist fiction, existential

fiction)Literary Movement : Modernism

William Frank Beckett (A Civil Servant)

May Barclay(A Nurse)

Frank Edward Beckett(Born 1902)

Samuel Barclay Beckett(Born on April 1906)

Education

Started to learn music

Studied French, Italian, and English Took up the post of lecteur d'anglais

Trinity College, Dublin

École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Earlsfort House School

Portora Royal School, Enniskillen

• (His early works, up until the end of world war II in 1945)• Strongly influenced by the work of his friend James Joyce• Beckett's first published novel, Murphy (1938)• Beckett first began to write creatively in the French In the late 1930s

• (Stretching from 1945 until the early 1960s)• He wrote what are probably his best-known works• After World War II, Beckett turned definitively to the French as a vehicle

• (From the early 1960s until Beckett's death in 1989) • His work were described as His work were described as minimalistminimalist• In prose pieces were not so prolificIn prose pieces were not so prolific as his writing of drama, as his writing of drama, as suggested by the title of the 1976 collection of short prose texts as suggested by the title of the 1976 collection of short prose texts FizzlesFizzles• In the dramas, the characters are whittled down to essential elementsIn the dramas, the characters are whittled down to essential elements

Theatre Theatre 20 Drama 20 Drama ScriptsScripts1940-19831940-1983

TelevisionTelevision7 Drama 7 Drama ScriptsScripts1965-19881965-1988

RadioRadio7 Drama Scripts7 Drama Scripts1957-19621957-1962

NovelsNovels8 works8 works1932-1932-19611961

Non-Non-FictionFiction5 works5 works1931-19701931-1970

StoriesStories5 works5 works1934-19881934-1988

NovellasNovellas5 works5 works1946-1946-19831983

MurphMurphyy19381938

The Lost OnesThe Lost Ones19711971

First LoveFirst Love19451945

ProustProust19311931

Honorary Doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin in 1959

International Publishers’ Formentor Prize(shared with Jorge Luis Borges) 1961

French Croix de Guerre in1945

Ireland Nobel Prize in 1969

An Irish commemorative coin(the 100th Anniversary of his birth)

Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969

The Samuel Beckett Bridge, Dublin

On 10 December 2009, the newest bridge across the River Liffey in Dublin was opened and named the Samuel Beckett Bridge in his honor. The bridge, depicting a harp on its side, was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava

Values

Persistence will take us to the

Success

Don’t be afraid of failure…

Someone who fails is the one who never

tries

"Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again.

Fail again. Fail better."

Change is not bad, it leads you to the

better one

Prepared by:

Melani SadonoSemester 7, Morning Class