Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) was born at Foxrock near Dublin into a Protestant family and studied French and Italian at Trinity College Dublin. In Paris in the late 1920s he became a friend and assistant of James Joyce. During the Second World War he joined a French Resistance network, fled to the village of Roussillon when it was betrayed, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. After the war he wrote mainly in French, producing the novels Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable and the plays Waiting for Godot and Endgame, which he translated into English himself. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 and died in Paris in 1989.
Waiting for Godot is a play in two acts by Samuel Beckett, written in French as En attendant Godot between late 1948 and early 1949, published by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1952, and first staged at the small Théâtre de Babylone in Paris on 5 January 1953, directed by Roger Blin. Beckett's own English translation, subtitled a tragicomedy in two acts, was published by Grove Press in New York in 1954.
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