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 LITERATURE: William Golding 1983 - Salisbury, UK
N 51° 03.954 W 001° 47.684
30U E 584451 N 5657844
A blue plaque, attached to a wall on the south side of North Walk in Salisbury, advises that the novelist and Nobel Prize winner for literature was a schoolmaster at the location from 1945 to 1962.
Waymark Code: WM137QJ
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/05/2020
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The
wording on the blue plaque reads:
Salisbury Civic Trust
William Golding
Novelist & Nobel Prize Winner
was a schoolmaster here
1945 - 1962
Bishop Wordsworth's CE School |
The Encyclopaedia
Britannica website has an article about William Golding that tells
us:
William Golding, in full Sir William Gerald
Golding, (born September 19, 1911, St. Columb Minor, near
Newquay, Cornwall, England—died June 19, 1993, Perranarworthal,
near Falmouth, Cornwall), English novelist who in 1983 won the
Nobel Prize for Literature for his parables of the human
condition. He attracted a cult of followers, especially among
the youth of the post-World War II generation.
Educated at Marlborough Grammar School, where his father taught,
and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Golding graduated in 1935.
After working in a settlement house and in small theatre
companies, he became a schoolmaster at Bishop Wordsworth’s
School, Salisbury. He joined the Royal Navy in 1940, took part
in the action that saw the sinking of the German battleship
Bismarck, and commanded a rocket-launching craft during the
invasion of France in 1944. After the war he resumed teaching at
Bishop Wordsworth’s until 1961.
Golding’s first published novel was Lord of the Flies (1954;
film 1963 and 1990), the story of a group of schoolboys isolated
on a coral island who revert to savagery. Its imaginative and
brutal depiction of the rapid and inevitable dissolution of
social mores aroused widespread interest. The Inheritors (1955),
set in the last days of Neanderthal man, is another story of the
essential violence and depravity of human nature. The
guilt-filled reflections of a naval officer, his ship torpedoed,
who faces an agonizing death are the subject of Pincher Martin
(1956). Two other novels, Free Fall (1959) and The Spire (1964),
also demonstrate Golding’s belief that “man produces evil as a
bee produces honey.” Darkness Visible (1979) tells the story of
a boy horribly burned in the London blitz during World War II.
His later works include Rites of Passage (1980), which won the
Booker McConnell Prize, and its sequels, Close Quarters (1987)
and Fire Down Below (1989). Golding was knighted in 1988. |
The Nobel
Prize website tells us about the 1983 Nobel Prize award for
literature:
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 was awarded to
William Golding "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of
realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of
myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today."
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Field of Accomplishment: Literature
Year of Award: 1983
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