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Minuit).
1952
 
 
 
 
Purchases land at Ussy-sur-Marne, subsequently Beckett’s preferred location for writing.
September
 
En attendant Godot
(Paris: Minuit).
1953
 
 
5 January
 
Premiere of
Godot
at the Théâtre de Babylone in Montparnasse, directed by Roger Blin.
May
 
L’Innommable
(Paris: Minuit).
August
 
Watt
, in English (Paris: Olympia Press).
1954
 
 
8 September
 
Waiting for Godot
(New York: Grove Press).
13 September
 
Death of Frank Beckett from lung cancer.
1955
 
 
March
 
Molloy
, translated into English with Patrick Bowles (New York: Grove; Paris: Olympia).
3 August
 
First English production of
Godot
opens in London at the Arts Theatre.
November
 
Nouvelles et Textes pour rien
(Paris: Minuit).
1956
 
 
3 January
 
American
Godot
premiere in Miami.
February
 
First British publication of
Waiting for Godot
(London: Faber).
October
 
Malone Dies
(New York: Grove).
1957
 
 
January
 
First radio broadcast,
All That Fall
on the BBC Third Programme.
Fin de partie, suivi de Acte sans paroles
(Paris: Minuit).
28 March
 
Death of Jack B. Yeats.
August
  
All That Fall
(London: Faber).
October
 
Tous ceux qui tombent,
translation of
All That Fall
with Robert Pinget (Paris: Minuit).
1958
 
 
April
 
Endgame
, translation of
Fin de partie
(London: Faber).
From an Abandoned Work
(London: Faber).
July
 
Krapp’s Last Tape
in Grove Press’s literary magazine,
Evergreen Review.
September
 
The Unnamable
(New York: Grove).
December
 
Anthology of Mexican Poetry,
translated by Beckett (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press; later reprinted
     in London by Thames & Hudson).
1959
 
 
March
 
La Dernière bande,
translation of
Krapp’s Last Tape
with Pierre Leyris, in the Parisian literary magazine
Les Lettres nouvelles.
2 July
 
Receives honorary D.Litt. degree from Trinity College Dublin.
November
 
Embers
in
Evergreen Review.
December
 
Cendres
, translation of
Embers
with Pinget, in
Les Lettres nouvelles.

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
(New York: Grove; Paris: Olympia Press).
1961
 
 
January
 
Comment c’est
(Paris: Minuit).
24 March
 
Marries Suzanne at Folkestone, Kent.
May
 
Shares Prix International des Editeurs with Jorge Luis Borges.
August
 
Poems in English
(London: Calder).
September
 
Happy Days
(New York: Grove).
1963
 
 
February
 
Oh les beaux jours,
translation of
Happy Days

(Paris: Minuit).
May
  
Assists with the German production of
Play
(
Spiel
, translated by Elmar and Erika Tophoven) in Ulm.
22 May
 
Outline of
Film
sent to Grove Press.
Film
would be produced in 1964, starring Buster Keaton, and released at the Venice Film
     Festival the following year.
1964
 
 
March
 
Play and Two Short Pieces for Radio
(London: Faber).
April
 
How It Is,
translation of
Comment c’est
(London: Calder; New York: Grove).
June
 
Comédie
, translation of
Play
, in
Les Lettres nouvelles.
July–Aug.
 
First and only trip to the United States, to assist with the production of
Film
in New York.
1965
 
 
October
 
Imagination morte imaginez
(Paris: Minuit).
November
 
Imagination Dead Imagine
(London:
The Sunday Times
; Calder).
1966
 
 
January
 
Comédie et Actes divers,
including
Dis Joe
and
Va et vient
(Paris: Minuit).
February
 
Assez
(Paris: Minuit).
October
 
Bing
(Paris: Minuit).
1967
 
 
February
 
D’un ouvrage abandonné
(Paris: Minuit)
Têtes-mortes
(Paris: Minuit).
16 March
 
Death of Thomas MacGreevy.
June
 
Eh Joe and Other Writings,
including
Act
Without Words
II
and
Film
(London: Faber).
July
 
Come and Go,
English translation of
Va et vient
(London: Calder).
26 September
 
Directs first solo production,
Endspiel
(translation of
Endgame
by Elmar Tophoven) in Berlin.
November
  
No’s Knife: Collected Shorter Prose, 1945–1966
(London: Calder).
December
 
Stories and Texts for Nothing,
illustrated with six ink line drawings by Avigdor Arikha (New York: