Samuel Beckett - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

  • Croix de guerre (France)
  • Médaille de la Résistance (France)
  • 1959 honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin
  • 1961 International Publishers' Formentor Prize (shared with Jorge Luis Borges).
  • 1968 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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