William G. Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding (September 19 1911 – June 19 1993) was an English novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1983) "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today."

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Born on September 19, 1911 at St Columb Minor, a village near Newquay, Cornwall. He started writing at the age of seven. His Cornish background has been rarely commented on, but he came to learn Cornish as a young man.

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His father was a local school master and an intellectual, who had radical convictions in politics

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