English novelist of the 20th century, a classic, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.
The writer was particularly sensitive to the atrocities of the Second World War, which he experienced while serving in the British Navy as a private seaman and later as an officer on submarines from the 1940s. until the end of the war. Observing world life, events, people, V. Golding became more and more convinced that humanity is sick. In his opinion, the writer's task is to diagnose and treat. He looks for the manifestations of that disease in each individual, without clearly relating it to the structure of society. He delves into human nature, shows that the baser instincts of man, under appropriate conditions, overshadow everything that makes a man a man.
The writer is worried about the fate of the younger generation - won't they also have to experience, survive the tragedy that the older generation had to go through during the Second World War? Where is the line between man and beast? What makes a person a person? These most important questions, which did not give V. Golding peace, are reflected in many of his works, as well as in "Lord of the Flies" - a philosophical-allegorical novel that made the author famous all over the world.
His first novel "Lord of the Flies" was rejected by twenty-one publishers, but when in 1954 was published, became a real literary sensation. in 1988 Queen Elizabeth II knighted Golding.
