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William Trevor is indexed among the 9,861 entries in Vinony's American Academy of Arts & Sciences collection.
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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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17
- Total plays
- 77
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Recent publications · Crossref
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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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Wikidata facts
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1928-05-24
- date of death
- 2016-11-20
- name in native language
- William Trevor
- birth name
- William Trevor Cox
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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.