荒誕派代言人Samuel Beckett

　　塞繆爾·貝克特(Samuel Beckett，1906年4月13日-1989年11月10日)，20世紀愛爾蘭、法國作家，創作的領域包括戲劇、小說和詩歌，尤以戲劇成就最高。他是荒誕派戲劇的重要代表人物。1969年，他因“以一種新的小說與戲劇的形式，以崇高的藝術表現人類的苦惱”而獲得諾貝爾文學獎。

　　Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906—22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright,theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy andgallows humour.

　　Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Strongly influenced by James Joyce, he is considered one of the last modernists. As an inspiration to many later writers, he is also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is one of the key writers in what Martin Esslincalled the "Theatre of the Absurd". His work became increasingly minimalist in his later career.

　　Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.