Great Irish novelist of Nothingness & Never.
Lives (1906-1989), Dublin.
One of the great names of Absurd Theatre, with Eugene Ionesco.
Beckett received the Nobel Prize in 1969.
Best known for the absurdist drama Waiting for Godot (1952), the play received worldwide acclaim and became the first of a series of critical successes, some of them written earlier.
Died at December 22, 1989.

ESTRAGON: Why don't we hang ourselves?

VLADIMIR: With what?

ESTRAGON: You haven't got a bit of rope?

VLADIMIR: No.

ESTRAGON: Then we can't.

--from Waiting for Godot