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William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993)

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William Golding

British novelist, poet, and playwright (1911–1993)

Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel…
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Nobel Prize in Literature

Prize established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning for Literature, is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most…
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September 19

Day of the year

September 19 is the 262nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 103 days remain until the end of the year.
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