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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.
May 20, 2024 · William Trevor (born May 24, 1928, Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland—died November 20, 2016, Somerset, England) was an Irish writer who was noted for his wry and often macabre short stories and novels.
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....
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.
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...
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.
William Trevor has 188 books on Goodreads with 105986 ratings. William Trevor’s most popular book is The Story of Lucy Gault.
Nov 23, 2016 · The great Anglo-Irish writer William Trevor, who died on Sunday at 88, was a late bloomer. He didn’t start writing until he was in his early 30s, after failing to make a living as a sculptor...
William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the Struggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88. Irish by birth and upbringing but a longtime resident of Britain, Mr. Trevor focused his mournful,...
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 nominated for the Booker Prize.
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