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William Trevor


Ireland (1928 - 2016)

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. 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.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
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Collections
   The Day We Got Drunk on Cake (1967)
   The Ballroom of Romance (1972)
   Angels at the Ritz (1975)
   The Distant Past (1977)
   Lovers of Their Time (1978)
   Beyond the Pale (1981)
   Ireland (1984)
   The News from Ireland (1986)
   The Collected Stories (1989)
   Family Sins (1989)
   Deadly Sins (1994) (with others)
   Outside Ireland (1995)
   Marrying Damian (1995)
   Cocktails at Doney's (1996)
   After Rain (1996)
   Fanfare (1999) (with others)
   The Hill Bachelors (2000)
   A Bit on the Side (2004)
   The Dressmaker's Child (2005)
   Cheating at Canasta (2007)
   Selected Stories (2010)
   The Mark-2 Wife (2011)
   Last Stories (2018)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Death of a Professor (1997)
   Summer Visitor (2000)
   Low Sunday, 1950 (2000)
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Anthologies edited
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
William Trevor recommends
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Mother Ireland (1976)
Edna O'Brien
"Edna O'Brien at her best."
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How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974)
Jennifer Johnston
"As fresh and as moving as ever it was, this remarkable novel is still a delight, undiminished by the passage of time."
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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."

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Anthologies containing stories by William Trevor
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Ghost (2015)
100 Stories to Read with the Lights On
edited by
Louise Welsh

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Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1970) : Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Children of Dynmouth
Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1976) : The Children of Dynmouth
Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1983) : Fools of Fortune
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1991) : Reading Turgenev
Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1994) : Felicia's Journey
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Story of Lucy Gault
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2002) : The Story of Lucy Gault
Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Story of Lucy Gault
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2009) : Love and Summer
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2011) : Love and Summer


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