William Trevor (1928–2016)
Autor/a de The Story of Lucy Gault
Sobre l'autor
William Trevor Cox was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland on May 24, 1928. He received a degree in history from Trinity College in 1950. Before becoming a full-time author in 1965, he worked as a sculptor, a teacher, and a copywriter at an advertising agency. He exhibited his sculptures in mostra'n més Dublin and England and was joint winner of the International Year of the Political Prisoner art competition in 1952. His first novel, A Standard of Behaviour, was published in 1958. His other novels include Other People's Worlds, Nights at the Alexandra, The Silence in the Garden, The Story of Lucy Gault, My House in Umbria, and Love and Summer. He won the Hawthornden Prize in 1964 for The Old Boys, the Whitbread Award in 1976 for The Children of Dynmouth, the Whitbread Award in 1983 for Fools of Fortune, and the Whitbread Award in 1994 for Felicia's Journey. His short story collections include The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories, The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories, Beyond the Pale, A Bit on the Side, Cheating at Canasta, and The Mark-2 Wife. The Hill Bachelors received the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Short Stories. He received the Allied Irish Banks' Prize in 1976, The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 1992, the David Cohen British Literature Prize in 1999, and the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature in 2008. In 1977, he was awarded an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature. He died on November 20, 2016 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de William Trevor
Beyond the Pale [short story] 2 exemplars
William Trevor's Selected Stories 2 exemplars
Family Sins [short story] 2 exemplars
The Women 1 exemplars
August Saturday [short story] 1 exemplars
Citindul pe Turgheniev 1 exemplars
Children of the Headmaster [short story] 1 exemplars
DUKE LEXUAR TURGENIE VIN 1 exemplars
Dreaming 1 exemplars
Men of Ireland [short story] 1 exemplars
Her Mother's Daughter 1 exemplars
The Dressmaker's Child [short story] 1 exemplars
DUKE LEXUAR TURGENIEVININ 1 exemplars
Cheating at Canasta [short story] 1 exemplars
Coffee with Oliver [short story] 1 exemplars
the dance master 1 exemplars
"in the Public Interest" 1 exemplars
After rain 1 exemplars
Three early novels 1 exemplars
The story of Lucy Gault 1 exemplars
A Husband's Return [short story] 1 exemplars
Folie à Deux [short story] 1 exemplars
The Printmaker [short story] 1 exemplars
Old Flame [short story] 1 exemplars
The Grass Widows [short story] 1 exemplars
A Choice of Butchers [short story] 1 exemplars
Timothy's Birthday [short story] 1 exemplars
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts 1 exemplars
The Love of a Good Woman 1 exemplars
The Room [short story] 1 exemplars
Bravado [short story] 1 exemplars
An Afternoon [short story] 1 exemplars
At Olivehill [short story] 1 exemplars
A Perfect Relationship [short story] 1 exemplars
The Children [short story] 1 exemplars
Faith [short story] 1 exemplars
A Trinity [short story] 1 exemplars
A Meeting in Middle Age 1 exemplars
A Complicated Nature 1 exemplars
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 1 exemplars
Trevor William 1 exemplars
Miss Smith [short story] 1 exemplars
Selected Stories Publisher: Viking Adult 1 exemplars
In Love with Ariadne [short story] 1 exemplars
За чертой 1 exemplars
Obres associades
A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement, Summer (1964) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 914 exemplars
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Col·laborador — 174 exemplars
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Col·laborador — 53 exemplars
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Cox, William Trevor
- Altres noms
- Trevor, William
- Data de naixement
- 1928-05-24
- Data de defunció
- 2016-11-20
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Ierland
- Lloc de naixement
- Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
- Lloc de defunció
- Somerset, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
Devon, England, UK - Educació
- Trinity College, Dublin
St. Columba's College, Dublin, Ireland - Professions
- teacher
sculptor
advertising copywriter
author
playwright
screenwriter - Premis i honors
- Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature (1994)
David Cohen British Literature Prize (1999)
Lannan Literary Award ( [1996])
Order of the British Empire ( [1977])
Bennett Award (1990)
Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature (2008) (mostra-les totes 9)
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [2005])
Irish Book Award Lifetime Achievement (2008)
Honorary Knight of the British Empire (2002) - Agent
- PFD
Membres
Converses
Folio Archives 299: Beyond the Pale and Other Stories by William Trevor 2010 a Folio Society Devotees (desembre 2022)
Ressenyes
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 115
- També de
- 49
- Membres
- 12,121
- Popularitat
- #1,936
- Valoració
- 4.3
- Ressenyes
- 284
- ISBN
- 485
- Llengües
- 18
- Preferit
- 67