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1906
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Born in Foxrock, County
Dublin, on 13 April 1906 in the family
house, Cooldrinagh.
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1916
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Easter Rebellion waged in Dublin.
Beckett's family is safely away from the violence, and his father takes him
and his brother to a hilltop where they can see the fires. That fall he enters Portora Royal
School.
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1923-27
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Attends Trinity
College, Dublin, earning a B.A. in French and
Italian.
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1928
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Takes teaching post at École Normale Supérieure in
Paris, as Lectueur d'Anglais. Though not enthusiastic about
a scholarly career, he meets James Joyce and enters the Parisian literary
circle. Beckett befriends Joyce and assists him with the Work in Progress
(later to become Finnegans Wake).
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1929
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"Dante. . .Bruno.Vico. .Joyce", an essay for the Joyce
symposium,Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of
Work in Progress
"Assumption", his first published short story (in transition)
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1930
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Proust
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Whoroscope
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1931
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Proust
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1932
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Dream of Fair to Middling Women
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1933
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Beckett's father dies 26 June. Depressed, Beckett
travels to London
and begins two years of psychotherapy with Dr. Wilfred Bion.
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More
Pricks Than Kicks
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1934
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More
Pricks Than Kicks
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1935
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Murphy
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Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates,
cycle of 13 poems written 1931-35
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1936-37
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Beckett travels around Germany, writing extensively in
notebooks. When he returns to Ireland,
he has a falling out with his mother and leaves his country permanently to
return to Paris.
Walking home one night in December, Beckett is stabbed and nearly killed by
a "pimp." While recovering in the hospital, he is attended by an
acquaintance, Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil, who will soon become his life
companion.
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1938
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Murphy
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1939
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Murphy in French
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1940
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When German troops invade Paris, Beckett and Suzanne travel to
Alcachon, not returning until November.
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1941
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Indignant about--among other atrocities--the
anti-Semitic actions of the Nazi regime and encouraged by his friend Alfred
Péron, Beckett joins the Gloria SMH cell of the French Resistance.
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1942-44
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When warned that his Resistance cell has been betrayed, Beckett and
Suzanne flee their apartment just before the Gestapo arrives. They hide out
all across Paris, before finally settling in
the country village
of Roussillion, where
Beckett picks up farm work in exchange for food.
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Watt
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1945
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The Germans defeated, Beckett and Suzanne return
to Paris.
Shortly after, Beckett travels to Ireland to visit his mother,
where he claims to have had an artistic revelation sitting in her room. As
a foreigner, Beckett encounters unexpected difficulty returning to France
and in order to ensure his re-entry, he volunteers for an Irish Red Cross
job in St.-Lô. He resettles in Paris
finally at the end of the year.
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1946
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The Nouvelles ("La fin", "L'expulsé",
"Le calmant", and "Premier amour")
Mercier et Camier
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1947
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Eleutheria
Molloy
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Murphy in French
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1947-48
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Malone
meurt
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1948-49
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En
attendant Godot
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1949
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"Three
Dialogues"
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1949-1950
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L'innomable
Anthology of Mexican Poetry, compiled
by Octavio Paz and translated by Beckett
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1950
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Beckett's mother, May, dies 25 August.
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1950-51
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Textes
pour rien
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1951
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Molloy
Malone meurt
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1952
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En
attendant Godot
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1953
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Roger
Blin's production of En attendant Godot opens 3 January in Paris' Théâtre de
Babylone. It brings Beckett his first fame and first financial success.
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Molloy in English
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Watt
L'innommable
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1954
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Beckett's brother, Frank, dies 13 September.
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1955
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Nouvelles et textes pour rien(left)
Molloyin English
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1955-56
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Fin de
partie
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1956
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Malone meurt in English
All That Fall
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Malone Dies
From an Abandoned Work
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1957
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First
production of Fin de partie at The Royal Court Theatre in London. All That
Fall broadcast by the BBC Third Programme, 13 January.
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L'innommable in English
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Fin de partie
All That Fall
Tous ceux qui tombent
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1958
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Krapp's Last Tape
performed at the Royal Court Theatre,
London, 28
October.
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Krapp's
Last Tape
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Krapp's Last Tape
Endgame
The Unnamable
Anthology of Mexican
Poetry
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1958-60
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Comment
c'est
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1959
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Embers broadcast
on BBC, 24 June
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Embers
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Embers
La dernière bande
Cendres
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1960-61
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Happy
Days
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1961
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Marries Suzanne in a secret civil ceremony in England,
25 March.
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Happy Days
Comment c'est
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1961-62
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Cascando
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1962
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Words
and Music
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1963
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Spiel (Play)
performed at the Ulmer Theater, Ulm-Doneau, 14 June.
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Play
How It Is
Film
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Oh les beaux jours
Cascando in English
Poems in English
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1963-65
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All Strange Away
Imaginez morte imaginez
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1964
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Travels to New York
for production of Film, starring silent film star Buster Keaton, his
only visit to the United
States.
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Play
Comédie
How It Is
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1965
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Film first
shown at the New York Film Festival.
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Assez
Come and Go
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Imagination morte imaginez, in French
and English
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1965-1970
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Le
dépeupleur
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1966
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Eh Joe
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Dis Joe
Va et vient
Paroles et musique
Assez
Bing
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1967
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Eh Joe
Film
Come and Go
From an Abandoned Work
Poémes
Stories and Texts for Nothing
Enough
Ping
Watt in French
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1968
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Watt in French
L'issue
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1969
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Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In Tunisia
at the time, Beckett goes into hiding, sending Jérôme Lindon to receive the
prize.
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Sans
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1970
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Mercier et Camier
Premier amour
Lessnesss
Le dépeupleur
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1971
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The
Lost Ones
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1972
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Not I plays at Lincoln Center in September
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Not I
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1973
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Not I
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1975
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Footfalls
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Footfalls and Pas Moi
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1976
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Footfalls performed
at Royal Court
Theatre in London.
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Fizzles
That Time
Pour finir encore et autre foirades
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1976
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That Time performed
at Royal Court
Theatre in London, 20 May.
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1977-79
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A Piece of Monologue
Company
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A Piece
of Monologue
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1979
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A Piece of Monologue
performed in New York
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1980
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Ohio Impromptu
Rockaby
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Company
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1981
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Ohio
Impromptu (above) performed at Ohio State
University for 75th
birthday Symposium.
Rockabyperformed
with Billie Whitelaw in Buffalo,
New York.
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Ohio Impromptu
Mal vu mal dit
Ill Seen Ill
Said
Rockaby
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1982
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Quad broadcast
in Germany by
Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany.
Catastrophe performed at Avignon Festival.
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Catastrophe
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1983
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Worstward Ho
Catastrophe
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1984
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Quad
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1986
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Diagnosed with ephysema, and moved into Le Tiers
Temps nursing home.
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Stirrings Still
"What Is the Word", a poem and his final
work
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1988
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Stirrings
Still
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1989
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Suzanne
dies 17 July, and Beckett dies 22 December.
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Soubresauts
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1992
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Dream of Fair to Middling Women
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1995
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Eleutheria
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