William Golding

William Golding
Osnovni podaci
Rođenje	19.9. 1911. Newquay, Cornwall, Engleska
Smrt	19. jun 1993. (starost 81) Perranarworthal, Cornwall, Engleska
Zanimanje	romanopisac
Nacionalnost	britansko
Djelo
Period	postmodernizam

Sir William Gerald Golding (19.9. 1911 – 19.6. 1993) bio je britanski romanopisac, pjesnik i dobitnik Nobelove nagrade za književnost najpoznatiji po svom romanu Gospodar muha. Također je dobio Booker Prize godine 1980. za roman Rites of Passage, prvi u trilogiji To the Ends of the Earth.

Glavna djela

• Poems (1934)
• Lord of the Flies (1954)
• The Inheritors (1955)
• Pincher Martin (1956)
• The Brass Butterfly (drama) (1958)
• Free Fall (1959)
• The Spire (1964)
• The Hot Gates (eseji) (1965)
• The Pyramid (1967)
• The Scorpion God (1971)
• Darkness Visible (1979)
• A Moving Target (eseji) (1982)
• Nessie- The Legend (članak) (1982)
• The Paper Men (1984)
• An Egyptian Journal (1985)
• To the Ends of the Earth (trilogija)
  • Rites of Passage (1980)
  • Close Quarters (1987)
  • Fire Down Below (1989)
• The Double Tongue (posthumno) (1996)

Vanjski linkovi

• The Spire a sixth form perspective at William Howard School
• Golding's Life and work reviewed at the Educational Paperback Association
• Biography of William Golding at the Nobel Prize website
• Interview by Mary Lynn Scott- Universal Pessimist, Cosmic Optimist
• Faber and Faber - UK publisher of William Golding
• William Golding Ltd Website of Golding family.
• Last Words An account of Golding's last evening by D.M. Thomas - Guardian - Saturday 10 June 2006 (Review Section)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article by Kevin McCarron (online edn, May 2006), Golding, Sir William Gerald (1911–1993)

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