Irish Central19d
On This Day: Samuel Beckett wins the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 23, 1969. Here we look back at the Irish man's life and his most famous quotes. Born in Foxrock, Dublin, in 1906, Beckett spent ...
Boston College3d
The influence of Irish literary laureates
A four-week webinar series produced by Boston College is exploring the lives and works of the four Irishborn winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel ...
The Hollywood Reporter26d
Gary Oldman to Make Theater Return After 37 Years in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’
Irish playwright and Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett, who died in 1989, has long been considered one of the most creative literary minds of his age. Krapp’s Last Tape follows a man who ...
Country and Town House on MSN1mon
Samuel Beckett’s Former Home Is Up For Sale
which bears not one but two blue plaques – it was once the home of Samuel Beckett, before being inhabited by Nobel ...
BBC8y
Samuel Beckett and binaural sound
Drama on 3 is delving into the world of Samuel Beckett using the playwright ... actors Ian McKellen and Carl Prekopp… The Nobel prize-winning director, novelist and playwright is best known ...
IGN3mon
Dance First
Literary genius Samuel Beckett (Byrne) lived a life of many parts: Parisian bon vivant, WWII Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband, recluse. But despite all the ...
BBC1y
Jon Fosse: 'Innovative' Norwegian author and playwright wins Nobel Literature Prize
Nobel Prize officials said Jon Fosse's work focused ... writers like fellow Norwegian Tarjei Vesaas as well as Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Georg Trakl and Franz Kafka. Nobel committee ...
ArtsHub14h
Waiting for Godot: a deep dive into the human condition
A new production of Beckett’s existential masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, is now playing The Street Theatre in Canberra.
Cambridge University Press1y
On Beckett
Heron, Jonathan 2021. #failbetter. Journal of Beckett Studies, Vol. 30, Issue. 1, p. 82. On Beckett: Essays and Criticism is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize winning author that ...
The Hollywood Reporter1mon
Han Kang, Whose ‘The Vegetarian’ Was Made Into a Film, Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The honor, one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will ... Britain’s Harold Pinter and William Golding, Ireland’s Samuel Beckett, Canada’s Alice Munro, South Africa’s Nadine ...
The Atlantic27d
Why Does Anyone Care About the Nobel Prize?
The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...
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Gary Oldman Set to Make Theater Return After 37 Years in Samuel Beckett's ‘Krapp's Last Tape'
Irish playwright and Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett, who died in 1989, has long been considered one of the most creative literary minds of his age. Krapp's Last Tape follows a man who ...