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I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'.


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Author Bio


  • NameWilliam Golding
  • DescriptionBritish novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
  • BornSeptember 19, 1911
  • DiedJune 19, 1993
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist
  • WorksLord Of The Flies
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; James Tait Black Memorial Prize