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Samuel Beckett

Died in 1989

Samuel Beckett was born on 13 April 1906 at Foxrock, near Dublin. A graduate of Trinity College in 1927, he was a lecturer in English at the École normale supérieure in Paris, then settled in France in 1938. During the Occupation, he belonged with Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil to the Gloria SMH resistance network; betrayed in 1942, they fled on foot to the Vaucluse and hid there until the Liberation, which earned him the Croix de guerre. After the war he wrote mostly in French. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969, he died in Paris on 22 December 1989.

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