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Born Sep 19, 1911 · St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England, UK
Active 1963–1993 · Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Booker Prize, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Knight Bachelor, honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
Sir William Gerald Golding (September 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993) was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies.