William Trevor
| William Trevor | |
|---|---|
| Born | William Trevor Cox 24 May 1928 Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland |
| Died | 20 November 2016 (aged 88) Somerset, England |
| Pen name | William Trevor |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Notable works |
The Old Boys The Boarding House Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel The Children of Dynmouth Fools of Fortune Two Lives Felicia's Journey The Story of Lucy Gault Love and Summer The Dressmaker's Child |
| Notable awards |
Hawthornden Prize for Literature 2008 |
Hawthornden Prize for Literature
1964
Whitbread Prize
1976, 1983, 1994
Jacob's Award
1982
Companion of Literature
1994
David Cohen Prize
1999
Irish PEN Award
2002
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award
2003
William Trevor KBE (24 May 1928 – 20 November 2016) was an Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he was widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language.
He won the Whitbread Prize three times and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, the last for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name was also mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2014, Trevor was bestowed Saoi by the Aosdána.
Trevor resided in Devon, South West England, from the 1950s until his death at the age of 88.
Born as William Trevor Cox in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland, to a middle-class Protestant family, he moved several times to other provincial towns, including Skibbereen, Tipperary, Youghal and Enniscorthy, as a result of his father's work as a bank official.
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