NMLP P-028864 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot)

Samuel Beckett · Les Editions de Minuit (Paris) · 1952

The Minuit French 'En attendant Godot' (1952) is the world-first. For the English text, Beckett's own translation appeared first from Grove Press (New York) in 1954; the Faber and Faber (London) 1956 edition was the first UK publication and used the censored stage text (the unexpurgated UK text did not appear until 1965). So Grove 1954 is the English-language first, Faber 1956 the UK first thus.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028864 for "Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot)" by Samuel Beckett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028864, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).