1906 b. 13April 13th. in Dublin. Irish Writer and playwright.
1923 Enters Trinity College. 1928 Oct; moves to Paris, meeting Eugene Jolas, Paul Valery, Adrienne Monnier, Nancy Cunard, Sylvia Beach and James Joyce. Joyce taught me what it meant to be a real artist. 1929 First meets and Georges Reavey?. 1930 Whoroscope published in her Hours Press by Nancy Cunard (with whom he had a brief affair). 1932 Translates poems by Andre Breton, Paul Eluard (L'amoureuse -> see translation ->) and Rene Crevel which are published in a special Surrealist edition of This Quarter. 1933 Translates for Nancy Cunard for her Negro Anthology. 1937 Brief affair with Peggy Guggenheim. 1938 Stabbed. Starts affair with Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil. 1940 Joins French Resistance. 1952 Publishes Waiting for Godot -> and gains financial support from Georges Neveux via the auspices of Roger Blin. 1959 Starts affair with ; (see also ->. 1961 m. Suzanne (largely as legal measure for inheritance purposes). 1965? Samuel Beckett's ; silent black and white with Buster Keaton ->. 1969? Nobel Prize for literature. 1989 Dec 22nd. d. Paris. See Chronology and web -> and wiki ->. Among his translations are those of eight Paul Eluard poems, The Drunken Boat by Rimbaud, Zone by Guillaume Apollinaire, and nine maxims by Chamfort. See Timeline