Irish Thought for October 21...

Irish Writers

Samuel Beckett

Born in Dublin, Samuel Beckett, widely regarded as one of the most important writers of the 20th century, was an avant-garde dramatist, novelist, and poet, perhaps best known for his play Waiting for Godot.  He is often considered one of the last modernists, and sometimes as a postmodernist pioneer due to his minimalist and absurdist influence on subsequent writers.  In 1969, Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.