Sir William Golding CBE
(1911-1993)
novelist, author, author of Lord of the Flies, schoolmaster (1945-1962), Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (from 1966), Nobel Literature Laureate (1983), and Knight Bachelor (from 1988)
Died aged c. 82
Wikidata WikipediaSir 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. 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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Commemorated on 4 plaques
William Golding novelist & Nobel Prize winner was a schoolmaster here 1945-1962
North Walk, Salisbury, United Kingdom where they worked
William Golding 1911-1993 author and Nobel Literature Laureate lived in this house. "Our house was on the green, that close like square, tilted south"
Golding House, 29 The Green, Marlborough, United Kingdom where they lived
Ebble Thatch. Sir William Golding Nobel Laureate 1911-1993 author of "Lord of the Flies" lived here in 1940 and from 1958-1985
Ebble Thatch, Mead End, United Kingdom where they lived (1940) and lived (1958-1985)
William Golding born here [full inscription unknown]
47 Mount Wise, St Columb Minor, Newquay, United Kingdom where they was born (1911)