He is considered one of the last modernists and also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, usually with black comedy and gallows humor.
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- Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".
- Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, 13 April 1906 to William Frank Beckett, a 35-year old quantity surveyor, and May Barclay (also 35 at Beckett's birth) a nurse.
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In the first article titled, Nobel Prize, the author states that Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.With that Nobel Prize, there was a cash reward of $73,000. On this win, Beckett never commented and could not be contacted. Reading about him, he was a very distant individual with no one really knowing his personal life, one critic even claimed that even in his death, he is still as distant as ever. In the article titled Godot, the author writes about one of Beckett's famous works which consisted of a bewildered child suffering an intolerable identity problem from having his peers forever arguing about what he ‘means.’
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