Bio-bibliography

Bio-bibliographic information
1906	Born in Dublin of Irish parents
1927	B.A. Trinity College, Dublin
1928-29	English reader at École Normale Supérieure, Paris
1930	French reader at Trinity College, Dublin
1938	Moved to France
1945	Began writing in French
1989	Died in Paris
Works in French
1951	Molloy (novel)
1951	Malone Meurt (novel)
1952	En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot (play in two acts)
1953	L'innommable/The Unnamable (novel)
1955	Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien/Stories and Texts for Nothing
1957	Fin de Partie/Endgame (one-act play) followed by: Acte sans Paroles I/Act without Words I
1961	Comment C'est/How It Is (novel)
1967	Têtes Mortes (D'un ouvrage abandonné/From an Abandoned Work, Imagination Morte Imaginez/Imagination Dead Imagine, Bing/Ping)
1970	Premier amour/First Love (novel)
1978	Pas, suivi de Quatre Esquisses/Steps, followed by Four Sketches (plays)
1979	Poèmes/Poems
Works in English
1977	Ends and Odds: Plays and Sketches
1979	All Strange Gone Away (short prose)
1980	Company (short prose)
1980	The Expelled and Other Novellas
1981	Rockaby and Other Pieces (plays and prose)
1982	Three Occasional Pieces (plays)
1983	Worstward Ho (short prose)
1983	Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writing and a Dramatic Fragment
1984	Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980
1986	Collected Poems 1930-1979
1989	Nohow On (short stories)
1990	As the Story Was Told: Uncollected and Late Prose
French translations by the author
1953	Murphy (novel)
1957	Tous Ceux qui Tombent/All that Fall (radio play)
1960	La dernière bande/Krapp's Last Tape (one-act play) followed by Cendres/Embers (play)
1963	Oh Les Beaux Jours/Happy Days (play in two acts)
1966	Comédie et Actes Divers/Play and Sundry Acts (Comédie/Play, Va-et-Vient/ Come and Go, Cascando, Paroles et Musique/Words and Music, Dis Joe/Eh! Joe, Acte sans Paroles II/Act without Words II)
1968	Poèmes/Poems
1969	Watt (novel - translated by Ludovic and Agnès Janvier in collaboration with the author)
Works in English translated from French by the author
1972	The Lost Ones (short prose)
1973	First Love (short prose)
1974	Mercier and Camier (novel)
1975	Malone Dies (novel)
1975	The Unnamable (novel)
1976	For to End Yet Again and Other Fizzles (short prose)
1978	Six Residua (short prose)
1982	Ill Seen, Ill Said

From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1968-1980, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Sture Allén, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993

 

Samuel Beckett died on December 22, 1989.

 

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