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William Golding
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William Golding was born Newquay, England. He is considered by many to be the greatest English novelist of the last 50 years
He wrote 11 novels, the best-known being Lord of the Flies, The Spire and Rites of Passage, which won the Booker Prize 1980. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, and was knighted in 1988.
Rites of Passage
Winner of The Booker Prize 1980
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- Faber & Faber
The first book of William Golding’s Sea Trilogy is a haunting account of an epic sea journey, which profoundly affects all those who set sail on it