English novelist, poet and winner of the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 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'. Golding studied natural sciences and English language at Oxford and became an English and philosophy teacher. He was married in 1939 to Ann Brookfied with whom he had two children, David and Diana. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy and was involved in the D-Day landings. Following the War he returned to teaching and writing. His first novel, 'Lord of the Flies', was published in 1954. By the Sixties the success of his writing allowed him to leave teaching and write full-time. In 1980 he won the
Booker Prize for his novel 'Rites of Passage' and in 1988 he received a knighthood.
English novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 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'. Golding studied natural sciences and English language at Oxford and became an English and philosophy teacher. He was married in 1939 to Ann Brookfied with whom he had two children, David and Diana. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy and was involved in the D-Day landings. Following the War he returned to teaching and writing. His first novel, 'Lord of the Flies', was published in 1954. By the Sixties the success of his writing allowed him to leave teaching and write full-time. In 1980 he won the Booker Prize for his novel 'Rites of Passage' and in 1988 he received a knighthood.
