William Golding

19 September 1911 - 19 June 1993

Standard Name: Golding, William

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Intertextuality and Influence	Muriel Spark	Norman Page called attention to the parallel with William Golding 's Pincher Martin, another novel about psychic survival for some time after physical death, published seventeen years earlier. Page, Norman. Muriel Spark. Macmillan, 1990. 86-7 An even more intriguing parallel...
Intertextuality and Influence	Naomi Mitchison	It is set in distant prehistoric times among people without knowledge of fire. Most of the people are a non-particularised They, who seek the survival of all, but have no individuality and no feeling...
Literary responses	Iris Murdoch	Among a chorus of discriminating praise, Susan Hill (after identifying herself as a Murdoch enthusiast who ranked her, with William Golding and Lawrence Durrell , as one of the three best and most important living...
Literary responses	Mary Renault	British Book News considered this work as an ambitious historical novel; its laudatory review concentrated on narrative style and plausibility of detail. British Book News. British Council. (1956): 517 But many British readers considered it primarily as a parallel...
Textual Production	Emma Tennant	ET published a novel entitled Queen of Stones, which re-casts William Golding 's Lord of the Flies. “Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction.

William Golding 's first novel, The Lord of the Flies, reached print from Faber and Faber after being rejected by twenty-one other publishers.

Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .

17 September 2009

William Golding from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.

The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.

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