GOLDING (William, 1911-1993, Author of ‘Lord of the Flies’)

Autograph Postcard Signed to an unnamed correspondent thanking him for his letter and “enclosures. I look forward to reading them when circumstances allow me time...”, 1 side postcard, Falmouth, 3rd January filing holes not affecting the text

Golding won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Darkness Visible in 1979, and the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980. In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and was according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography "an unexpected and even contentious choice". Having been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1966 New Year Honours, Golding was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1988 Birthday Honours. In September 1993, only a few months after his unexpected death, the First International William Golding Conference was held in France. In 1985, Golding and his wife moved to a house called Tullimaar in Perranarworthal, near Truro, Cornwall. 125

Item Date:  1986

Stock No:  42105      £125

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