Презентация на тему Sir william golding

– 19 June 1993) was an English novelist, poet,

playwright and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies.

house, 47 Mountwise, St Columb Minor, Cornwall and he

spent many childhood holidays there. He grew up at his family home in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where his father (Alec Golding) was a science master at Marlborough Grammar School (1905 to retirement).

to a Knight Bachelor. In 2008, The Times ranked

Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

commitment to scientific rationalism, and the young Golding and

his elder brother Joseph attended the school where his father taught. His mother, Mildred (Curnroe), kept house at 29, The Green, Marlborough, and supported the moderate campaigners for female suffrage. In 1930 Golding went to Oxford University as an undergraduate at Brasenose College, where he read Natural Sciences for two years before transferring to English Literature

chemist,(p161) on 30 September 1939 and they had two

children, Judith and David

Chancellorship of the University of Kent at Canterbury, but

lost to the politician and leader of the Liberal Party Jo Grimond. Golding won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1979, and the Booker Prize in 1980. In 1983 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, a choice which was, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "an unexpected and even contentious choice, with most English critics and academics favouring Graham Greene or Anthony Burgess". In 1988 Golding was appointed as a Knight Bachelor.

Honours in the summer of 1934, and later that

year his first book, Poems, was published in London by Macmillan & Co, through the help of his Oxford friend, the anthroposophist Adam Bittleston.

the Nobel prize in literature «for the novels, which

clearly realistic narrative of art in conjunction with the variety and versatility of the myth help to comprehend the conditions of human existence in the modern world»

the twentieth century, Golding's reputation was at its highest

in continental Europe, particularly in Belgium, Holland, Germany, and France"

Elizabeth II knighted title. For the four years prior

to this writer published a novel, «the Paper losers» (The Paper Men), in the Anglo-American press which caused fierce debate. It was followed by «Close proximity» (Close Quarters, 1987) and «Fire down below» (Fire Down Below, 1989).

his eightieth birthday, independently combined the three novels of

the cycle, which was published under one cover under the heading «On the edge of the world: the trilogy».