On 21st October 1980, forty years ago today, William Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage. Golding was 69 and until 2019, […]
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William Golding’s legacy: His enduring influence on popular culture
Updated for 2020! On 19th June 1993, William Golding died at his home in Cornwall, looking out of the window, perhaps watching the rise of the […]
Read more…Golding’s Trojan War
This is a guest post by Arabella Currie. Arabella is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Exeter, researching Golding’s engagement with Classics. […]
Read more…January 2019 News Round-up
Round-up of William Golding in the news in January 2019! The release of two Fyre Festival documentaries prompted a series of articles comparing the experience […]
Read more…The sea and Golding’s ‘Sea Trilogy’.
The sea is a frequent presence in Golding’s writing; it represents isolation for the boys in Lord of the Flies, and is the cause of […]
Read more…Rites of Passage in the WSJ’s list of stories set on ships
Rites of Passage, the first book of Golding’s Sea Trilogy, has been included in Elizabeth Lowry’s list of stories set on ships, published in the Wall […]
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