William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding, CBE FRSL (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 would go on to publish another eleven novels 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 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.
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| Full name at birth | William Gerald Golding
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| Date of birth | 19 September 1911
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| Place of birth | St. Columb Minor, Newquay, Cornwall, UK
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| Date of death | 19 June 1993
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| Age | 81 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Cornwall, England
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| Cause of death | Heart Failure
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| Occupation | Writer of novels, plays and poems
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William Golding is known for his role in the film Girl Blood Sport (2019) as special thanks.
He is also known for his role in the TV series short I riassuntini (2018) as based on the novel by - 2020.
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