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William Trevor

Ireland   (1928 - )
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William Trevor was born in County Cork in 1928 and spent his childhood in various provincial Irish towns. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to England in 1953. He now lives in Devon. In 1977 William Trevor received an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature, and in 1998 he was awarded the prestigious David Cohen British Literature Prize for a lifetime's achievement in writing.
 
New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Love and Summer
Love and Summer

Anthologies edited
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories
 
Non fiction
Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs
 
Anthologies containing stories by William Trevor
The 8th Ghost BookA Century of Short StoriesIrish Ghost StoriesThe Minerva Book of Short Stories 1
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost StoriesThe Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost StoriesNightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories
 
Short stories
The Only Story (1971)
Access to the Children (1972)
The Love of a Good Woman (1972)
In Isfahan (1975)
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts (1975)
Broken Homes (1976)
A Trinity (1987)
The Raising of Elvira Tremlett


Awards
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1970) : Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1976) : The Children of Dynmouth
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Children of Dynmouth
Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1983) : Fools of Fortune
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1991) : Reading Turgenev
Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1994) : Felicia's Journey
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Story of Lucy Gault
Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Story of Lucy Gault
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Story of Lucy Gault


Books about William Trevor
Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan: A Bibliography of their First EditionsWilliam Trevor: The Writer and His Work
 
William Trevor recommends
An End to Flight
An End to Flight (1973)
Vincent Lawrence (Vincent Banville)
"Sharply etched... novels as good as this one are necessary to remind us that life is not all soft-soap and panel games."
Mother Ireland
Mother Ireland (1976)
Edna O'Brien
"Edna O'Brien at her best."



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