The publication of letters between Willian Golding and Charles Monteith, then probationary editor at Faber and Faber, offer an evaluation of his life and work.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/edmund-gordon/bloody-cavemen
'In 1980 he won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Darkness Visible and the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, and in 1983 he received the Nobel, making him the first English laureate since Winston Churchill thirty years earlier. He began to nag Monteith about proposing him for a knighthood (‘are you kultivating my K?’), a campaign that eventually paid off in 1988, five years before he died.'
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