William Golding
- Sir William Gerald Golding
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- Golding, William
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1911-09-19
- Place of birth
- Newquay
- Date of death
- 1993-06-19
- Place of death
- Cornwall
Wikipedia
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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English novelist, playwright, and poet. In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth.Last modified: 2020-08-09 (revision #19244)
Editions
| Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lord of the Flies (Penguin Classics Deluxe edition) | eBook | 9781101993224 | 2016-11-15 |
| Der Turm der Kathedrale | Paperback | 3-596-25045-5 | 1983-11 |
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- William Golding wrote The Paper Men
- William Golding wrote The Spire
- William Golding wrote Free Fall
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- 2024-02-18