Samuel Beckett

The two main characters are Vladimir and Estragon, often referred to simply as Didi and Gogo. They spend the entirety of the two-act play waiting by a country road for someone named Godot, who never arrives.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 for his groundbreaking work in modern drama and prose. The committee highlighted his writing, which "in destitution and derision acquires its elevation."

Although he was Irish, he wrote many of his most famous works, including *Waiting for Godot*, in French first. He would then translate them into English himself.

*Endgame* is set in a bare, dimly lit room with two small windows positioned high up on the wall. The characters Hamm and Clov are trapped in this claustrophobic space, which is implied to be the last refuge after an unspecified global catastrophe.