caption death_date death_place influenced birth_place influences awards nationality notableworks name birth_date signature genre image article_title birth_name occupation alma_mater
golding in 1983 19 june 1993 perranarworthal , cornwall , england , uk stephen • suresh guptara king • greg f. gifune • jyoti guptara newquay , cornwall , england , uk jules • homer verne • john milton • h. g. wells 1983 nobel prize in literature 1980 booker prize english '' lord of the flies '' sir william golding 19 september 1911 william_golding_signature . jpg survivalist • science fiction • essay • historical fiction • stageplay fiction • poetry • robinsonade • adventure • sea story william golding 1983.jpg william golding
 william gerald golding schoolteacher • novelist • playwright • poet oxford university
william golding

sir william gerald golding cbe -lrb- 19 september 1911 -- 19 june 1993 -rrb- was an english novelist , playwright , and poet .
best known for his novel `` lord of the flies '' , he won a nobel prize in literature , and was also awarded the booker prize for literature in 1980 for his novel `` rites of passage '' , the first book in what became his sea trilogy , `` to the ends of the earth '' .
golding was knighted by elizabeth ii in 1988 .
he was a fellow of the royal society of literature .
in 2008 , `` the times '' ranked golding third on their list of `` the 50 greatest british writers since 1945 '' .
