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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: Indiana University Press; later reprinted in London
     by Thames and 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: Grove).
1968
 
March
Poèmes (Paris: Minuit).
December
Watt, translated into French with Ludovic and Agnès Janvier (Paris: Minuit).
1969
 
23 October
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Sans (Paris: Minuit).
1970
 
April
Mercier et Camier (Paris: Minuit).
 
Premier amour (Paris: Minuit).
July
Lessness , translation of Sans (London: Calder).
September
Le Dépeupleur (Paris: Minuit).
1972
 
January
The Lost Ones, translation of Le Dépeupleur (London: Calder; New York: Grove).
 
The North, part of The Lost Ones, illustrated with etchings by Arikha (London: Enitharmon Press).
1973
 
January
Not I (London: Faber). 
July
First Love (London: Calder).
1974
 
 
Mercier and Camier (London: Calder). 
1975
Spring
Directs Godot in Berlin and Pas moi (translation of Not I )in Paris.
1976
 
February
Pour finir encore et autres foirades (Paris: Minuit).
20 May
Directs Billie Whitelaw in Footfalls, which is performed with That Time at London’s Royal Court Theatre