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At last, the most infamous latecomer in all of literature has arrived – not in the flesh, but in South Africa’s Afrikaans language. Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s best-known drama, Waiting for Godot, now also lives as Ons Wag vir Godot.

Other lives: Literary scholar and academic who had a long friendship and correspondence with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett