Beck·ett  (běk'ĭt)  Irish-born writer whose novels include Murphy (1938) and Malone Dies (1951). Beckett is known to a wider audience for his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot (1952) and Krapp's Last Tape (1959). He won the 1969 Nobel Prize for literature. |
An Irish-born twentieth-century French author who is best known for the play Waiting for Godot. (See also theater of the absurd.)