English novelist William Golding (1911–93) is best known for his classic novel Lord of the Flies (1954), which depicts a group of schoolboys isolated on a coral island who revert to savagery. Golding received the Booker Prize for his 1980 novel Rites of Passage, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.
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