| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1966 |
| Number: | 8 - 2 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Samuel Beckett |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1906 |
| Year, Death: | 1989 |
| Profession: | Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet |
| City: | Paris |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Léon Cellier |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1911 |
| Year, Death: | 1976 |
| Profession: | Professor of French Literature |
| University: | University of Grenoble |
| City: | Grenoble |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |