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»Watt«, his last English novel. 1945 Returns at Easter to Ireland to see his family; then, in order to get back to France, accepts in August a post as interpreter and storekeeper at the Irish Red Cross hospital in Saint-Lô, Normandy. 1946-50 Back in Paris, burst of creative activity. Writes in French the essential works of the canon, the trilogy of novels (»Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable«) and the play »Waiting for Godot«, which was preceded by »Eleutheria« (unpublished). 1950 Mother dies. 1951 »Molloy« and »Malone Dies« published in Paris (’getting known’, »Krapp’s Last Tape,« p. 18). 1952 »Waiting for Godot« published in Paris. 1953 World première of »Waiting for Godot« in Paris, 5 January, director Roger Blin. 1954 Beckett’s English translation of »Godot« published in New York. 1955 World première of the English »Godot« in London, 3 August. 1957 First broadcast of »All That Fall« by 8.8. C., 13 January, director Donald McWhinnie. Creation of »Endgame« (French text, with »Act Without Words I«) in London, 3 April, director Roger Blin.

1958 World première of »Krapp’s Last Tape« in London,23 October, director Donald McWhinnie. 1959 Hon. D.Litt., Dublin University. »Embers« wins Italia Prize. 1961 World première of »Happy Days« in New York, 16 September, director Alan Schneider. International Publishers’ Prize, shared with Borges. 1962 First broadcast of »Words and Music« by 8.8. C., 13 November. 1963 Creation of »Play« (in German translation) at Ulm, 124 June, director Deryk Mendel. First broadcast of »Cascando« by R.T.F., 13 October, director Roger Blin. 1964 »Film« made in New York, director Alan Schneider. 1965 Creation of »Come and Go« (in German translation) in Berlin, September, director Deryk Mendel. 1966 »Eh Joe« televised by 8.8. C., 4 July, production by Michael Bakewell. 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature. First independent production of »Breath« (originally incorporated by Kenneth Tynan as the opening sketch in »Oh! Calcutta«), Glasgow, October, director Geoffrey Gilham. 1972 World première of »Not I« at the Lincoln Center in the Forum (Vivian Beaumont Theater Building), New York, 22 November, with Jessica Tandy as Mouth and Henderson

Forsythe as Auditor, directed by Alan Schneider. 1976 In celebration of Beckett’s seventieth birthday, first broadcast by 8.8. C. Radio 3 of »Rough for Radio«, and world première of »That Time« and »Footfalls« at the Royal Court Theatre, London; »Footfalls« was directed by Beckett himself. 1977 »Ghost Trio« and ... »but the clouds« ... televised by the 8.8. C., 17 April, with Billie Whitelaw and Ronald Pickup, directed by Donald McWhinnie. 1989 Beckett dies 22 nd of December in Paris. Burried on Montparnasse Cemetary. □ A Student’s Guide to the Plays of Samuel Beckett, Faber Paperbecks.