From Waiting for Godot to the present time, Samuel Beckett has produced a major body of dramatic work including Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, Happy Days, Rockaby, and the Ohio impromptu, as well as twenty other pieces. He has also received major recognition including, in 19969, the Nobel prize for literature for "a body of work that, in new forms of fiction and the theatre, has transmuted the destitution of modern man into his exaltation.