FIRST PAPER
Subject:
# 14214 Narrativa Inglesa desde el S.
XVIII Grupo A
Student’s name: Martínez Ascó, Mabel
Title of the paper: Biography
& Chronology
Author or topic: Beckett, Samuel
(Image from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Samuel_Beckett_01.jpg)
Abstract :
I’ve focused my paper both on the biography and on the chronology of well-known 19th
century author Samuel Becket. I have also included some links of interesting published studies about the writer in
case any of you are interested and want to buy them.
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish
minimalist writer,
dramatist
and poet. He is also considered one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin
called "Theatre of the Absurd".
Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 for his
"writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of
modern man acquires its elevation". Beckett was elected Saoi of Aosdána in
1984. He died in
Auto-evaluation: 7
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Mabel Martínez Ascó
asco@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press