| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Beckett, Samuel |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Beck·ett |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b k  t |
| DATES: | 1906–1989 |
| Irish-born writer whose novels include Murphy (1938) and Malone Dies (1951). Beckett is known to a wider audience for his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot (1952) and Krapp's Last Tape (1959). He won the 1969 Nobel Prize for literature.
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