SIR WILLIAM GOLDING

1983 Nobel Laureate in Literature

for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today.

• 1911-1993
  
• Place of birth: Newquay, Cornwall
• Residence: Great Britain
• Education: Oxford University
• Major works:
  • Poems (1934)
  • Lord of the Flies (1954)
  • The Inheritors (1955)
  • Pincher Martin (1956)
  • Free Fall (1959)
  • The Spire (1964)
  • Darkness Visible (1979)
  • The trilogy Rites of Passage (1980, Booker Prize), Close Quarters (1987), Fire Down Below (1989), republished under the general title To The Ends of the Earth

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