William Trevor (1928–2016)
Auteur van Het verhaal van Lucy Gault
Over de Auteur
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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Werken van William Trevor
Family Sins [short story] 2 exemplaren
Beyond the Pale [short story] 2 exemplaren
William Trevor's Selected Stories 2 exemplaren
Men of Ireland [short story] 1 exemplaar
The Dressmaker's Child [short story] 1 exemplaar
Her Mother's Daughter 1 exemplaar
Cheating at Canasta [short story] 1 exemplaar
Dreaming 1 exemplaar
Bravado [short story] 1 exemplaar
The Women 1 exemplaar
"in the Public Interest" 1 exemplaar
After rain 1 exemplaar
The story of Lucy Gault 1 exemplaar
A Choice of Butchers [short story] 1 exemplaar
The Grass Widows [short story] 1 exemplaar
the dance master 1 exemplaar
DUKE LEXUAR TURGENIEVININ 1 exemplaar
DUKE LEXUAR TURGENIE VIN 1 exemplaar
Citindul pe Turgheniev 1 exemplaar
The news from Ireland other other stories 1 exemplaar
Timothy's Birthday [short story] 1 exemplaar
A Trinity [short story] 1 exemplaar
August Saturday [short story] 1 exemplaar
At Olivehill [short story] 1 exemplaar
A Perfect Relationship [short story] 1 exemplaar
The Children [short story] 1 exemplaar
Old Flame [short story] 1 exemplaar
Faith [short story] 1 exemplaar
Folie à Deux [short story] 1 exemplaar
The Room [short story] 1 exemplaar
A Meeting in Middle Age 1 exemplaar
A Complicated Nature 1 exemplaar
The Love of a Good Woman 1 exemplaar
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts 1 exemplaar
Children of the Headmaster [short story] 1 exemplaar
Trevor William 1 exemplaar
Miss Smith [short story] 1 exemplaar
Selected Stories Publisher: Viking Adult 1 exemplaar
In Love with Ariadne [short story] 1 exemplaar
An Afternoon [short story] 1 exemplaar
The Printmaker [short story] 1 exemplaar
Coffee with Oliver [short story] 1 exemplaar
A Husband's Return [short story] 1 exemplaar
За чертой 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Cox, William Trevor
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Trevor, William
- Geboortedatum
- 1928-05-24
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2016-11-20
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Ierland
- Geboorteplaats
- Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
- Plaats van overlijden
- Somerset, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
Devon, England, UK - Opleiding
- Trinity College, Dublin
St. Columba's College, Dublin, Ireland - Beroepen
- teacher
sculptor
advertising copywriter
author
playwright
screenwriter - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- 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) (toon alle 9)
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [2005])
Irish Book Award Lifetime Achievement (2008)
Honorary Knight of the British Empire (2002) - Agent
- PFD
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Folio Archives 299: Beyond the Pale and Other Stories by William Trevor 2010 in Folio Society Devotees (december 2022)
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