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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983

"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"
William Golding
William Golding
United Kingdom
b. 1911
d. 1993
 
 
 
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