William Golding
/ˌwɪljəm ˈɡəʊldɪŋ/
/ˌwɪljəm ˈɡəʊldɪŋ/
- (1911-93) an English writer of novels. He is best known for his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954). Like many of his other works, it is concerned with human cruelty. He won the Booker Prize for the novel Rites of Passage (1980), and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1983. He was made a knight in 1988.
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William Golding