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William Golding had been shortlisted by the Nobel committee ten years earlier, in 1973, as one of the final six contenders for the prize that year. [3] In 1983, William Golding and Claude Simon were the main candidates for the prize. An anonymous source in the Swedish Academy revealed that two rounds of voting were required before Golding ...
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".
Some Cornish writers have reached a high level of prominence, e.g. William Golding, who won the Nobel Prize for literature (in 1983), D. M. Thomas who won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature and Arthur Quiller-Couch ("Q").
A Moving Target is a collection of essays and lectures written by William Golding. It was first published in 1982 [1] by Faber and Faber but subsequent reprints included Golding's Nobel Prize lecture which he gave after being awarded the honour in 1983. The book is divided into the two sections of "Places" and "Ideas".
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1983. Events April ... Nobel Prize for Literature: William Golding [7] Australia
To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of nautical novels—Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989)—by British author William Golding.Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class and man's reversion to savagery when isolated, in this case, the closed society of the ship's ...
The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. [4] As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individuals. [5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize.
William Robert Grove, Welsh judge and physical scientist; Michael Kosterlitz, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate; Professor Graham Richards, head of chemistry at the University of Oxford (1997–2006) Sir Michael Stratton, third director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; currently heads the Cancer Genome Project