William Golding's Birth Card: The 5 of Clubs

In the record

Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. The birth-card coordinate for September 19 is the 5 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1983 Literature prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1983 The 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

The 5 of Clubs coordinate

William Golding's birthday maps to the 5 of Clubs (The Dynamic Innovator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on William Golding. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pressure-test an idea in public and let the better one win.

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William Golding in the public record

Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Son of Alec Golding, a science master at Marlborough Grammar School (1905 to retirement), and Mildred (née Curnoe), William Golding was born on 19 September 1911 at his maternal grandmother's house, 47 Mount Wise, Newquay, Cornwall. The house was known as Karenza, the Cornish word for love, and he spent many childhood holidays there.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article William Golding (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 5 of Clubs

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Quick thinking and fast adaptation

Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: published.

Also on the record

1. The Golding family lived at 29, The Green, Marlborough, Wiltshire, and Golding and his elder brother Joseph attended the school where their father taught.
2. Golding's mother was a campaigner for female suffrage.
3. She was Cornish, and was considered by her son "a superstitious Celt" who used to tell him old Cornish ghost stories from her own childhood.
4. In 1930, Golding went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read natural sciences for two years before transferring to English for his final two years.

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FAQ

What is William Golding's birth card?

The 5 of Clubs. September 19 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.

Where do William Golding's dates come from?

Birth date 1911-09-19 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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