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Samuel Beckett is a writer, linguist, film director (Ireland).
Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, often coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. A major figure of Irish literature and one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, he is best remembered for his 1953 tragicomedy play Waiting for Godot. He was one of the last modernist writers, and a key figure in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd." For his lasting literary contributions, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, Beckett wrote in both French and English.
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| Born | 13 April 1906 |
| Profession | writer, linguist, film director |
| Nationality | Ireland |
| Educated at | Trinity College Dublin |
| Spouse | Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Literature, Obie Award, Saoi, Prix Formentor, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin, star on Playwrights' Sidewalk, Scholar |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Sagittarius |
| Nakshatra | Mula (Pada 2) |
| Sun Sign | Aries |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Libra |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 314 writers and poets with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 29 of them (9%) have the Moon in Sagittarius, like Samuel Beckett, and 16 (5%) share the Mula Nakshatra — the #3 most common Moon Nakshatra among writers and poets, where Shravana leads with 18 (6%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Samuel Beckett was born on 13 April 1906. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Samuel Beckett's Moon sign (Rashi) is Sagittarius and the Nakshatra is Mula, pada 2, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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