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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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