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William Golding

British writer


Dead at 81 years
Birthday
Tuesday
He is born 112 years, 6 months and 10 days ago
Death date
Saturday

He is dead since 30 years, 9 months and 10 days

Cause of death: heart attack

Birthplace
St Columb Minor, England
Nationality: british Royaume-Uni
Birth sign: Virgo
Chinese birth sign: Pig

Sir William Gerald Golding (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".

Source : Wikipedia