William Trevor
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William Trevor, KBE (born May 24, 1928) is a short story writer, novelist and playwright of Irish origin, now living in Devon in England.
Born William Trevor Cox in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland to a middle-class Anglican family, he moved several times to other provincial towns due to his father's work as a bank official. He received a degree in history at Trinity College in Dublin.
Trevor worked for a while as a sculptor, supplementing his income by teaching. He married Jane Ryan in 1952 and emigrated to England two years later. His first novel, A Standard of Behaviour, was published in 1958, but had little critical success.
After abandoning sculpting he became a copywriter in London before becoming a full-time writer in 1965. Trevor's stories are set in both England and Ireland. He has adapted much of his work for stage, television and radio. Felicia's Journey was made into an acclaimed film by Atom Egoyan.
Awards and distinctions
Trevor is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters. In 2002 he received an honorary knighthood in recognition of his services to literature. He was given an honorary CBE in 1977, and was made a Companion of Literature in 1994.
- 1964: Hawthornden Prize for Literature for The Old Boys
- 1964: Hawthornden Prize for Literature for The Boarding House
- 1970: Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel nominated for the Booker Prize
- 1975: Royal Society of Literature for Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories
- 1976: Whitbread Award for The Children of Dynmouth
- *Allied Irish Banks Prize for fiction
- *Heinemann Award for Fiction
- 1983: Whitbread Prize for Fools of Fortune
- 1991: Reading Turgenev nominated for the Booker Prize
- 1994: Whitbread Prize Best Novel for Felicia's Journey
- 2001: Irish Literature Prize
- 2002: The Story of Lucy Gault was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award.
- 2003: Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award at Listowel Writers’ Week
Bibliography
- A Standard of Behaviour (Hutchinson, 1958)
- The Old Boys (Bodley Head, 1964)
- The Boarding House (Bodley Head, 1965)
- The Love Department (Bodley Head, 1966)
- The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1967)
- Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (Bodley Head, 1969)
- Miss Gomez and the Brethren (Bodley Head, 1971)
- The Old Boys (play, Davis-Poynter, 1971)
- A Night with Mrs da Tanka (play, Samuel French, 1972)
- Going Home (play, Samuel French, 1972)
- The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1972)
- Elizabeth Alone (Bodley Head, 1973)
- Marriages (play, Samuel French, 1973)
- The Last Lunch of the Season (Covent Garden Press, 1973)
- Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1975)
- The Children of Dynmouth (Bodley Head, 1976)
- Lovers of their Time (Bodley Head, 1978)
- The Distant Past (Poolbeg Press, 1979)
- Other People's Worlds (Bodley Head, 1980)
- Beyond the Pale (Bodley Head, 1981)
- Scenes from an Album (Co-Op Books (Dublin), 1981)
- Fools of Fortune (Bodley Head, 1983)
- The Stories of William Trevor (Penguin, 1983)
- A Writer's Ireland: Landscape in Literature (Thames & Hudson, 1984)
- The News from Ireland and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1986)
- Nights at the Alexandra (Hutchinson, 1987)
- The Silence in the Garden (Bodley Head, 1988)
- Family Sins and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1989)
- Two Lives (Viking, 1991)
- Juliet's Story (Bodley Head, 1992)
- Outside Ireland: Selected Stories (Viking, 1992)
- Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs (Hutchinson, 1993)
- Felicia's Journey (Viking, 1994)
- After Rain (Viking, 1996)
- Death in Summer (Viking, 1998)
- Personal Essays (1999)
- The Hill Bachelors (Viking, 2000)
- The Story of Lucy Gault (Viking, 2002)
- A Bit On the Side (Viking, 2004)
As an editor
- The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (Oxford University Press, 1989)
External links
- [British Council arts group article on William Trevor]
- [Trevor page at Contemporary Writers site]
- [Dublin Quarterly article on Trevor's short stories]
- [Read Ireland's Trevor page]
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