A powerpoint presentation based on the Drama course at the School of Foreign Languages (STIBA IEC), Jakarta, Indonesia

1. Samuel BeckettBarclay

2. BORN
On 13 April 1906
At Cooldrinagh
house Foxrock,
Dublin, Ireland
DIED
On 22 December
1989 (aged 83)
Paris, France

3. Pen name : Andrew Belis
Occupation : Novelist,
playwright,
poet, essayist
Language : English, French
Nationality : Irish
Genres : Drama, fictional
prose, poetry,
screenplays
(experimental,
absurdist fiction,
existential fiction)
Literary
Movement : Modernism

4. William Frank Beckett
(A Civil Servant)
May Barclay
(A Nurse)
Frank Edward Beckett
(Born 1902)
Samuel Barclay Beckett
(Born on April 1906)

5. EducationStarted to learn music
Studied French,
Italian, and EnglishTook up the post of lecteur d'anglais
Trinity College,
Dublin
École Normale Supérieure,
Paris
Earlsfort House School
Portora Royal School,
Enniskillen

6. • (His early works, up until the end of world war II in 1945)
• Strongly influenced by the work of his friend James Joyce
• Beckett's first published novel, Murphy (1938)
• Beckett first began to write creatively in the French
In the late 1930s
• (Stretching from 1945 until the early 1960s)
• He wrote what are probably his best-known works
• After World War II, Beckett turned definitively to the French
as a vehicle
• (From the early 1960s until Beckett's death in 1989)
• His work were described asHis work were described as minimalistminimalist
• In prose pieces were not so prolificIn prose pieces were not so prolific as his writing of drama,as his writing of drama,
as suggested by the title of the 1976 collection of short prose textsas suggested by the title of the 1976 collection of short prose texts FizzlesFizzles
• In the dramas, the characters are whittled down to essential elementsIn the dramas, the characters are whittled down to essential elements

7. TheatreTheatre
20 Drama Scripts20 Drama Scripts
1940-19831940-1983
TelevisionTelevision
7 Drama Scripts7 Drama Scripts
1965-19881965-1988
RadioRadio
7 Drama Scripts7 Drama Scripts
1957-19621957-1962

8. NovelsNovels
8 works8 works
1932-19611932-1961
Non-Non-
FictionFiction
5 works5 works
1931-19701931-1970
StoriesStories
5 works5 works
1934-19881934-1988
NovellasNovellas
5 works5 works
1946-19831946-1983
MurphyMurphy
19381938
The Lost OnesThe Lost Ones
19711971
First LoveFirst Love
19451945
ProustProust
19311931

9. Honorary Doctorate
from Trinity College,
Dublin in 1959
International Publishers’ Formentor Prize
(shared with Jorge Luis Borges) 1961
French
Croix de Guerre
in1945

10. Ireland Nobel Prize
in 1969
An Irish commemorative coin
(the 100th Anniversary of his
birth)
Nobel Prize for Literature in
1969

11. The Samuel Beckett Bridge, Dublin
On 10 December 2009, the newest bridge across the River
Liffey in Dublin was opened and named the Samuel Beckett
Bridge in his honor. The bridge, depicting a harp on its side,
was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava

12. Values
Persistence will
take us to the
Success
Don’t be afraid of
failure…
Someone who fails is
the one who never
tries
"Nothing else ever.
Ever tried. Ever failed.
No matter. Try again.
Fail again. Fail better."
Change is not bad, it
leads you to the
better one

13. Prepared by:
Melani Sadono
Semester 7, Morning Class