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William Golding
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19 September 1911 - 19 June 1993
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William Gerald Golding, a famous English writer, was born in 1911, on September 19, in Cornwall in the family of a schoolteacher. William attended Oxford University at Brainoz College. After graduation, he worked for a while at a London homeless shelter. In 1939 he began teaching. William taught English and philosophy at a school in Salisbury. He devoted all his free time to the theatre. During the World War Golding served in the British Navy. According to him, the experience gained in the war,
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William Gerald Golding, a famous English writer, was born in 1911, on September 19, in Cornwall in the family of a schoolteacher. William attended Oxford University at Brainoz College. After graduation, he worked for a while at a London homeless shelter. In 1939 he began teaching. William taught English and philosophy at a school in Salisbury. He devoted all his free time to the theatre.
During the World War Golding served in the British Navy. According to him, the experience gained in the war, “deprived him of all illusions about human nature.”
His first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. A few years later, a famous film was made on his novel by director Peter Brook. Golding’s works are written in the original genre. It's more of a parable. All his characters seem to be taken out of ordinary life and put in critical conditions, where there are no loopholes that exist in everyday life.
William taught until 1960. In 1961, he and his wife moved to the United States, where he worked for a year at the Women’s College of Art Sciences. In 1967, the world saw his famous collection of three novels “Pyramid”. In 1979, for his novel Visible Darkness, the writer was awarded the James Tate Black Memorial Award. Some of his most popular works are “The Spire”, “Heirs”, “Extraordinary Ambassador”, “Free Fall”, “Paper People”, “Hapuga Martin”, “Pyramid”, “Tolstoy Mountain”, “Paradise Lost”, etc.
For his services to English literature, Golding was knighted in 1966 and received the Booker-McConnell Prize. In 1983, William was awarded the Nobel Prize for his invaluable contribution to the development of world literature. In 1992, Golding was operated on (he had a malignant tumor removed). His health has been seriously affected.
On June 19, 1993, he died of a heart attack at home before he could finish his last book, Double Language. The famous writer is buried in the church cemetery in the town of Bowerchok (England).