SAMUEL BECKETT TIMELINE

SAMUEL BECKETT TIMELINE

1906	April 13	Samuel Barclay Beckett is born near Dublin, Ireland.
1919		He is sent off to the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh -- the same school Oscar Wilde attended.
1923		He begins his studies at Trinity College, Dublin.
1923		He graduates from Trinity College, Dublin, with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
1928		He moves to Paris.
1929		Beckett published his first work, a critical essay defending James Joyce's writings.
1930		"Whoroscope" wins first place in a competition for a poem about time.
1931		Beckett earns a Master of Arts degree from Trinity College.
		He publishes Proust, a collection of essays.
1934		He publishes his first novel, More Pricks than Kicks.
1937		He has a brief affair with the art collector Peggy Guggenheim.
1938		He publishes his second novel, Murphy.
		Beckett is hospitalized after being stabbed in the street by a man who approaches him asking for money.
1940		Unhappy with the German occupation of his adopted homeland, Beckett joins the French Resistance.
1942		Several members of Beckett's underground resistance group are arrested by the Gestapo, and he is forced to flee to the unoccupied zone.
1945		Beckett returns to Paris.
1951		He publishes two more novels -- Molloy and Malone Dies.
1953	January 5	Waiting for Godot premieres at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris. The "strange little play in which nothing happens" enjoys a run of 400 performances.
		He publishes two more novels -- Watt and The Unnamable.
1957	January 13	Beckett's radio play All That Fall is broadcast by the BBC.
	April 3	Endgame premieres at the Royal Court Theatre in London under the direction of Roger Blin. The play is well received and secures Beckett's position as a master dramatist.
	November 19	A company of actors from the San Francisco Actor's Workshop present Waiting for Godot at the San Quentin penitentiary for an audience of over fourteen hundred convicts. The production is a great success.
1958	October 28	Krapp's Last Tape premieres at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
1959	June 24	Embers, a radio play, is broadcast by the BBC.
1961		Beckett publishes How It Is, his last full-length prose work.
	March 25	In a secret civil ceremony, Beckett marries Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil.
	September 17	Happy Days premieres at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York.
1963	October 13	Cascando, a radio piece for music and voice, is broadcast by the ORTF.
1965		Beckett's film, entitled Film, is shown at the New York Film Festival.
1966	July 4	Eh Joe, a piece for television, is broadcast by the BBC.
1969	December 10	Beckett is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He refuses to attend the ceremony.
1973	January 16	Not I premieres at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
1976	May 20	That Time and Footfalls premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
1977	April 17	Ghost Trio and ...but the clouds ..., two plays for television, are broadcast on BBC2.
1979		He publishes Company, a novella.
1981		Ohio Impromptu premieres at Ohio State University.
1982		He publishes another novella, Ill Seen, Ill Said.
		Catastrophe, written for Vaclav Havel, is performed at the Avignon Festival.
	December 16	Quad is broadcast on BBC2.
1983	June 15	What Where premieres at the Harold Clurman Theatre in New York.
1984		Beckett is elected Saoi of Aosdána.
		He publishes his final novella, Worstword Ho.
1989	July 17	His wife Suzanne dies.
	December 22	Samuel Beckett dies at the age of 83. Although he continues to write until his death, he says, in the end, that each word seems "an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."

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