The William Golding Lecture is free of charge and open to members of the public, who are requested to register via email or by calling: 01326 371 898. His book The Lord of the Flies combined these two aspects of his life. During World War II, he joined the Royal Navy. As a result, he followed in his father’s footsteps and became a teacher at Salisbury High School. John's talk is part of the University of Exeter's annual William Golding Memorial Lecture which will be held at the Tremough Campus on Tuesday 26 January at 6pm. William Golding, who was born on Septemin England, was a famous musician and actor. Golding followed his parents’ wishes until his second year at Oxford, when he changed his focus to English literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 was awarded to William Golding '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' To cite this section MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983. Although he tried to write a novel as early as age twelve, his parents urged him to study the natural sciences. He even wrote a travel book about Egypt.Īt the time of his death, William Golding left a journal of more than two million words, which included his daily thoughts over a 20 year period.īiographer John Carey will be coming to Cornwall in late January to reveal more about William Golding. William Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Cornwall, England. Golding wrote several books during his life time, but its fair to say Lord of the Flies totally over-shadowed all his other novels. William Golding The Inheritors: the intimate secrets in William Goldings Neanderthal tale Sixty years after William Golding’s vivid novel of evolutionary nemesis was published, his daughter.

'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.' When William Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, the Nobel Foundation cited:

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