April 13

Drago Jančar

Drago Jančar (born April 13, 1948) Slovenian novelist, playwright, essayist - And Love Itself (2022)

Read more about Drago Jancar here and here

Drago Jancar and Stefan Hertmans talk about the settings for their writing
 here


Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (born April 13, 1939) Irish poet, Nobel Prize winner (1995) - Seeing Things (1991)

Read an interview with Heaney here

Seamus Heaney reads one of his poems
 here


Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty (born April 13, 1909) U.S. novelist, short story writer – One Writer’s Beginnings

Watch Eudora Welty on the Dick Cavett Show (1979) here

Eudora Welty talks about her life and her surroundings
 here


Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett (born April 13, 1906) Irish playwright, novelist, poet – Waiting for Godot

Visit the Samuel Beckett Society website
https://samuelbeckettsociety.org/biography/

Billie Whitelaw talks about working with Samuel Beckett here

Watch a brief film clilp of Beckett in 1987
 here