Golding, William Gerald (GOLDING William Gerald)

William Gerald Golding (Golding) was born September 19, 1911 in the county of Cornwall.
He graduated from Oxford University (1935).
During the 2-nd World War 1939-45 he served in the British navy.
In 1945-61 worked as a teacher.
In 1955, Golding was elected to the Royal Society of Literature and knighted in 1966.

Widely known first novel Golding "Lord of the Flies" (1954, Russian. translated 1969), where the example of the exceptional situation - misadventures of the boys on a desert island - reveals the dangerous tendencies of modern civilization, which can lead to fascism and war.

Since this work has stood the hundreds of editions throughout the world and many times was put on the theatrical stage. In 1962 the novel was filmed eminent English director Peter Brook.
The severity of the moral and ethical perspective characteristic of the subsequent philosophical novels Golding - "Inheritors" (1955), "Free Fall" (1959), "awesome" (1964, Russian. translated 1968) and others

. Realistic in describing reality, combined with the symbols for Golding, growing out of the plot of his novels, which tend toward the philosophical generalizations, which, however, expressed in image form, rather than didactic.
. Nobel Laureate (1983).

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