Nobel laureate
William Golding — 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”
Prize motivation
“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”
The Swedish Academy awarded William Golding the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature 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.
Other laureates of the 1980s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).