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William Golding
1911–1993
British novelist, poet, and playwright (1911–1993)
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1993 June 19, 1993 →Biography
Sir William Gerald Golding 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. Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993)
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