Michael Mark Brodsky is known for his translation of Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet Samuel Beckett.
 He is best known for his novels, and for his translation of Samuel Beckett's "Eleuthria". 
Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906  22 December 1989) 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. 
