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| Born | William Gerald Golding 19 September 1911 Newquay, Cornwall, UK |
| Died | 19 June 1993 (aged 81) Perranarworthal, Cornwall, UK |
| Resting place | Holy Trinity Church, Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, England |
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| Alma mater | Brasenose College, Oxford |
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Sir William Gerald Golding CBE FRSL (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.[1][2] He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[1] In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[3]
- ^ a b William Golding: Awards Archived 16 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine. William Golding.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2012
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