In 1898, Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They settled in Ayot St Lawrence in a house now called Shaws Corner. Shaw died there, aged 94, from chronic problems exacerbated by injuries he incurred by falling from a ladder.
He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Oscar , for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion , respectively Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honours, but accepted it at his wifes behest: she considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books into English.
荒诞派代言人Samuel Beckett
塞缪尔贝克特,20世纪爱尔兰、法国作家,创作的领域包括戏剧、小说和诗歌,尤以戏剧成就最高。他是荒诞派戏剧的重要代表人物。1969年,他因以一种新的小说与戏剧的形式,以崇高的艺术表现人类的苦恼而获得诺贝尔文学奖。
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright,theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy andgallows humour.
Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Strongly influenced by James Joyce, he is considered one of the last modernists. As an inspiration to many later writers, he is also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is one of the key writers in what Martin Esslincalled the Theatre of the Absurd. His work became increasingly minimalist in his later career.
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