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
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Cox
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Mitchelstown
- Place of death
- Somerset
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Notable work
- The Story of Lucy Gault
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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
- writing language
- English language
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
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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.