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William Golding - Facts. William Golding. Born: 19 September 1911, St. Columb Minor, United Kingdom. Died: 19 June 1993, Perranarworthal, United Kingdom. Residence at the time of the award: United Kingdom. Prize motivation: for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today.
Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prize for fiction 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 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.