Samu el Becke tt Barcl ay
Jan 17, 2015
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