Bio-bibliography
| Bio-bibliographic information | |
| 1906 | Born in Dublin of Irish parents |
| 1927 | B.A. Trinity College, Dublin |
| 1928-29 | English reader at École Normale Supérieure, Paris |
| 1930 | French reader at Trinity College, Dublin |
| 1938 | Moved to France |
| 1945 | Began writing in French |
| 1989 | Died in Paris |
| Works in French | |
| 1951 | Molloy (novel) |
| 1951 | Malone Meurt (novel) |
| 1952 | En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot (play in two acts) |
| 1953 | L’innommable/The Unnamable (novel) |
| 1955 | Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien/Stories and Texts for Nothing |
| 1957 | Fin de Partie/Endgame (one-act play) followed by: Acte sans Paroles I/Act without Words I |
| 1961 | Comment C’est/How It Is (novel) |
| 1967 | Têtes Mortes (D’un ouvrage abandonné/From an Abandoned Work, Imagination Morte Imaginez/Imagination Dead Imagine, Bing/Ping) |
| 1970 | Premier amour/First Love (novel) |
| 1978 | Pas, suivi de Quatre Esquisses/Steps, followed by Four Sketches (plays) |
| 1979 | Poèmes/Poems |
| Works in English | |
| 1977 | Ends and Odds: Plays and Sketches |
| 1979 | All Strange Gone Away (short prose) |
| 1980 | Company (short prose) |
| 1980 | The Expelled and Other Novellas |
| 1981 | Rockaby and Other Pieces (plays and prose) |
| 1982 | Three Occasional Pieces (plays) |
| 1983 | Worstward Ho (short prose) |
| 1983 | Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writing and a Dramatic Fragment |
| 1984 | Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980 |
| 1986 | Collected Poems 1930-1979 |
| 1989 | Nohow On (short stories) |
| 1990 | As the Story Was Told: Uncollected and Late Prose |
| French translations by the author | |
| 1953 | Murphy (novel) |
| 1957 | Tous Ceux qui Tombent/All that Fall (radio play) |
| 1960 | La dernière bande/Krapp’s Last Tape (one-act play) followed by Cendres/Embers (play) |
| 1963 | Oh Les Beaux Jours/Happy Days (play in two acts) |
| 1966 | Comédie et Actes Divers/Play and Sundry Acts (Comédie/Play, Va-et-Vient/ Come and Go, Cascando, Paroles et Musique/Words and Music, Dis Joe/Eh! Joe, Acte sans Paroles II/Act without Words II) |
| 1968 | Poèmes/Poems |
| 1969 | Watt (novel – translated by Ludovic and Agnès Janvier in collaboration with the author) |
| Works in English translated from French by the author | |
| 1972 | The Lost Ones (short prose) |
| 1973 | First Love (short prose) |
| 1974 | Mercier and Camier (novel) |
| 1975 | Malone Dies (novel) |
| 1975 | The Unnamable (novel) |
| 1976 | For to End Yet Again and Other Fizzles (short prose) |
| 1978 | Six Residua (short prose) |
| 1982 | Ill Seen, Ill Said |
Samuel Beckett died on December 22, 1989.
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