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Beckett, Samuel
 
SYLLABICATION:Beck·ett
PRONUNCIATION:  bkt
DATES:1906–1989
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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