| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1966 |
| Number: | 8 - 4 |
| 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: | William York Tindall |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1903 |
| Year, Death: | 1981 |
| Profession: | Professor of English literature |
| University: | Columbia University |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |