William Trevor
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written many novels, and has won many prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel Love and Summer was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also a renowned writer of short stories, and his two-volume Collected Stories was published by Viking Penguin in 2009. In 1999 William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature...See more
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written many novels, and has won many prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel Love and Summer was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also a renowned writer of short stories, and his two-volume Collected Stories was published by Viking Penguin in 2009. In 1999 William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement, and in 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. See less
William Trevor's Featured Books
William Trevor book reviews
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Ireland
Come dance with me in Ireland
by Brian, Mar 9, 2014
There are few societies more suitable for the short story than the societies of rural Ireland with their intensely social, strongly religious people bound by ties of land and time. Every small Irish ... Read More
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Felicia's Journey
Felicia's Journey
Masterful writing. Compelling, riveting story. Don't watch the movie -- it massacred the book. Read More
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Two Lives
Trevor at his usual best
by Trevor4, Nov 5, 2009
These two novellas are shaped by this brilliant writer so that the reader is immersed in what is being said, not on how it is being said. I.e. one does not edit Trevor: his words are perfectly fitted ... Read More