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| Samuel, 1906–1989, Irish playwright and novelist, living in France: Nobel prize for literature 1969. |
| 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. |
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