Culture of Cornwall Cornish poets. The Nobel-prizewinning novelist William Golding who was born in St Columb Minor in 1911, and returned to live near Truro from 1985 until his death in 1993. Other notable Cornish writers include Arthur Quiller-Couch, alias "Q", novelist and literary critic, Jack Clemo, deaf-blind poet, Ronald Bottrall, modernist poet, Robert Stephen Hawker, eccentric Victorian poet and priest, Geoffrey Grigson, poet and critic, Silas Hocking, a prolific novelist, and D. M. Thomas, novelist and poet. The late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman was famously fond of Cornwall and it featured prominently in his poetry. He is buried in the churchyard
Bevil Quiller-Couch Southern Cemetery, in Germany. Although he died after the end of the war, his name is still recorded on the war memorial at Fowey Church. A book by Charlotte Pullein-Thompson called "The Tears of War" was published in 2000 by Cavalier Books. It was a compilation of Quiller-Couch's love-letters sent to his fiancée and poems she sent to him. In 2002, BBC Radio 4 presented a dramatised version of "The Tears of War" as the afternoon play for Armistice Day. The part of Quiller-Couch was played by the actor James Purefoy. Bevil Quiller-Couch Major Bevil Quiller-Couch MC was a decorated