Author

Samuel Beckett

2 award wins, 1 nomination across 3 books.

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist in his later career.

EndgameHappy DaysThe Complete Dramatic Works
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Endgame

1 Nomination

96 pages

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Happy Days

1 Award Won

64 pages

"Two characters--a woman buried up to her waist in the first act and up to her neck in the second, and a man who revolves around the mound in which she is placed--probe the tenuous connections that hold people to people and people to the universe in Happy Days"--Cover.

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The Complete Dramatic Works

1 Award Won

478 pages

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Awards & Nominations
Obie
1964 · Best Play
Winner