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William Trevor Cox KBE (24 May 1928 – 20 November 2016), known by his pen name William Trevor, was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, [5] he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. [6]
William Trevor, Irish writer who was noted for his wry and macabre short stories and novels. His notable novels included The Old Boys, The Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune, and Felicia’s Journey.
William Trevor is one of the most prolific writers to have emerged from modern Ireland. Acclaimed as both novelist and short-story writer, he is somewhat unusual in having maintained the two forms in tandem, rather than using one – the story – as an apprenticeship for a mature career in the other – the novel.
Nov 21, 2016 · William Trevor, whose mournful, sometimes darkly funny short stories and novels about the small struggles of unremarkable people placed him in the company of masters like V. S. Pritchett, W....
Feb 26, 2018 · The Irish writer William Trevor was born in County Cork in 1928, and worked as a teacher, sculptor, and advertising copywriter before turning to writing fiction full time.
The many novels and short stories of William Trevor, who died this week aged 88, and the adaptations for television and radio which he made of several of them, firmly and subtly stake out a...
In sixteen novels and twelve collections of stories, William Trevor was a peerless portrayer of lives with holes in them. The vulnerable, the self-deluded, the luckless, the socially excluded, the furtively seductive and the openly malignant throng his pages.
Nov 21, 2016 · Books. William Trevor made the ordinary and familiar, new and shocking. Trevor was a world class writer who chronicled the lives of the forgotten, the despairing losers, the innocent and the...
Jan 10, 2011 · William Trevor has been writing for more than 50 years and has won more literary awards than we have time to list here. Trevor has published 14 novels, but he is even more celebrated for his...
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, Ireland. He wrote many novels, and was a renowned writer of short stories. His novels won numerous awards, including the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Four of his novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
