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Also known as William Cox Trevor

Irish writer (1928–2016)

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Within Vinony's link graph, William Trevor is referenced by 186 other articles, and connects out to Costa Book Awards, Order of the British Empire and Trinity College, Dublin.

It sits within the topics 1928 births, 2016 deaths and 20th-century Irish male writers.

Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Born
1928
Works
121

Top works

  • Deadly Sins
  • The boarding house
  • Otto peccati capitali
  • Haunted Stories
  • The Penguin book of Irish fiction

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
CA
Active from
1970-05-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
17
Total plays
77

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Quotes

  • You have to walk to get to know a city; it was then — in the Dublin of the 1940s — that I first discovered that. was a staid row of unlicensed hotels, politely elbowing one another for attention; was famous for its sausage shop. The set the tone for , and Charlemont Street offered a display of s, extracted from the footsore: The Walker's Friend, a notice said. and Lad Lane and Lady Lane, Ebenezer Terrace and Morning Star Road: all of them had an echo of a lost significance.

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Key facts

Born
William Trevor Cox , ( 1928-05-24 ) 24 May 1928, Mitchelstown , County Cork, Ireland
Died
20 November 2016 (2016-11-20) (aged 88), Crediton, Devon , England
Pen name
William Trevor
Occupation
Novelist, short story writer
Language
English
Citizenship
Irish
Alma mater
Trinity College, Dublin
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 , 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 , Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature , 2008

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date of birth
1928-05-24
date of death
2016-11-20
name in native language
William Trevor
birth name
William Trevor Cox
Sources (7)

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Encyclopedic overview

Autograph of William Trevor William Trevor Cox 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 is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. Trevor 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.

Trevor won the 2008 International Nonino Prize in Italy. In 2014, he was bestowed with the title of Saoi within Aosdána. He resided in England from 1954 until his death in 2016, at the age of 88.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Trevor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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