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Samuel Beckett

1906 - 1989

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Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is regarded by critics as one of the most influential and important playwrights of the 20th century, and is credited with transforming the modern theatre. A major figure of Irish literature, he is best known for his tragicomedy play Waiting for Godot (1953). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Beckett is the 157th most popular writer (down from 134th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Ireland and the 5th most popular Irish Writer.

Samuel Beckett is most famous for his play Waiting for Godot.

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Among writers, Samuel Beckett ranks 157 out of 7,302. Before him are Emily Brontë, Carlo Collodi, Plautus, Yasunari Kawabata, H. P. Lovecraft, and Mary Shelley. After him are Eugène Ionesco, Ivan Turgenev, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Tomas Tranströmer, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Jean Racine.

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Among people born in 1906, Samuel Beckett ranks 9. Before him are Adolf Eichmann, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Grace Hopper, and Kurt Gödel. After him are Aristotle Onassis, Ernst Chain, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Luchino Visconti, Emmanuel Levinas, and Josephine Baker. Among people deceased in 1989, Samuel Beckett ranks 7. Before him are Salvador Dalí, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Hirohito, Ferdinand Marcos, Ruhollah Khomeini, and Herbert von Karajan. After him are Konrad Lorenz, Ted Bundy, Georges Simenon, Sergio Leone, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, and Andrei Sakharov.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Samuel Beckett ranks 7 out of 549. Before him are James Joyce (1882), Oscar Wilde (1854), Richard Harris (1930), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Robert Boyle (1627), and Jonathan Swift (1667). After him are George Berkeley (1685), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), Mary Harris Jones (1837), John Scotus Eriugena (810), Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), and Brigid of Kildare (451).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Samuel Beckett ranks 5. Before him are James Joyce (1882), Oscar Wilde (1854), George Bernard Shaw (1856), and Jonathan Swift (1667). After him are Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Iris Murdoch (1919), and Saint Gall (550).

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