William Golding is interviewed in 1959 ... This culminated in him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993, aged 81, at his home in Cornwall.

When I saw that William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was turning ... When Golding was presented with the Nobel Prize in 1983 by the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf told him: “It is a great ...