SB
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century.
429
Knowlson
's Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry observes that he changed the entire face of post-war theatre as well as influencing painters and...
Family and Intimate relationships
Samuel Beckett
SB
married Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil
, whom he had met in the 1920s and lived with for decades, at Folkestone in Kent.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Tayler, Christopher. “Under–the–Table–Talk”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 6, pp. 19-23.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Samuel Beckett
Following several other love-affairs (the earliest with a cousin, Peggy Sinclair
, who died young in 1933), SB
shared his life from about this time with pianist Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil
, whom he married in 1961...
death
Samuel Beckett
SB
, Irish playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, died of respiratory failure caused by emphysema at the Hôpital St Anne in Paris, almost six months after the death of his wife
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.