William Golding
(1911-1993)
British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
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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), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Golding 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.
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William Gerald Golding 19 September 1911 St. Columb Minor, Newquay, Cornwall, UK
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19 June 1993 (aged 81) Cornwall, England
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