Nobel Prize winning Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet, Samuel Beckett is revered as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best remembered as the father of the Postmodernist movement, whose body of work influenced a wide range of subsequent writers and filmmakers. He was also a writer of the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’, plays of absurdist fiction genre. His work has been embedded with elements of black comedy, gallows humour and offers a tragicomic outlook into human nature. His seminal work ‘Waiting for Godet’ is a timeless classic that delved into the absurdity of human existence. Samuel Beckett became a part of the French Resistance movement during the World War II and fled to escape war. During the years of war, he devoted his time to writing some of his most acclaimed works. He came back to Paris after the Germans left and reached the zenith of his writing career. Some of his best known works include, ‘Malone Dies’, ‘Molloy’, ‘The Unnamable’, ‘Watt’ and the play, ‘Endgame’. His works have been translated into more than twenty languages.