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Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) was an Irish writer who lived and worked principally in France. He wrote in both English and French and often translated his own works. His fiction, poetry, essays, radio and television scripts, and stage plays are marked by linguistic minimalism, dark comedy, repetition, and an intense examination of consciousness, failure, memory, and human persistence. His major works include the novels Murphy, Watt, the trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, and How It Is; the plays Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, and Krapp's Last Tape; and late prose such as Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.