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{{Short description|Irish writer (1928-2016)}}
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{{awd|[[David Cohen Prize]]|1999}}
{{awd|[[Irish PEN Award]]|2002}}
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'''William Trevor Cox''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE}} (24 May 1928 – 20 November 2016) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world,<ref>{{cite news|first=Alison|last=Flood|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/12/impac-dublin-award-shortlist-irish|title=Impac prize shortlist dominated by three-strong Irish contingent|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 April 2011|access-date=12 April 2011}}</ref> he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguinclassics.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141196244,00.html?MINI_MODERN_CLASSICS_THE_MARK-2_WIFE_William_Trevor|title=It's like gadgets in shops}}</ref> Trevor won the [[Costa Book Awards|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]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/punters-tip-trevor-for-nobel-honour-3255594.html|title=Punters tip Trevor for Nobel honour|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=10 October 2012|access-date=10 October 2012}}</ref> 

Trevor won the 2008 [[Nonino#Winners|International Nonino Prize]] in Italy. In 2014, he was bestowed with the title of [[Saoi]] within [[Aosdána]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/player/2014/0929/20656235-william-trevor-elected-to-position-of-saoi-by-aosdana-to-honour-outstanding-achievements/
|title=William Trevor elected to position of Saoi by Aosdána to honour outstanding achievements|newspaper=RTÉ News|date=29 September 2014|access-date=4 December 2016}}</ref> He resided in England from 1954 until his death in 2016, at the age of 88.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/21/irish-writer-william-trevor-dies-aged-88 The Guardian: William Trevor, watchful master of the short story, dies aged 88]</ref>

==Biography==
He was born as William Trevor Cox in [[Mitchelstown]], County Cork, Ireland, to a middle-class, [[Anglo-Irish people|Anglo-Irish]] [[Protestantism in Ireland|Protestant]] ([[Church of Ireland]]) family. He moved several times to other provincial locations, including [[Skibbereen]], [[County Tipperary|Tipperary]],{{clarify|date=July 2024|reason=Tipperary town or county intended here?}} [[Youghal]] and [[Enniscorthy]], as a result of his father's work as a bank official.

He was educated at a succession of schools including [[St Columba's College, Dublin]] (where he was taught by [[Oisín Kelly]]) and at [[Trinity College Dublin]], from which he received a degree in history. Trevor worked as a sculptor<ref>Homan Potterton, 'Suggestions of Concavity: William Trevor as Sculptor', ''Irish Arts Review'', vol 18 (2002), pp.93–103.</ref> under the name Trevor Cox<ref name="Tusa interview BBC">{{cite web |last1=Tusa |first1=John |author-link1=John Tusa |title=BBC Radio 3 - The John Tusa Interviews, William Trevor |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ncz6v |website=The John Tusa Interviews |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 September 2018 |archive-url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nb1n3/broadcasts/2006/08 |archive-date=2 Aug 2006 |date=12 June 2005}}</ref> after he graduated from Trinity College, supplementing his income by teaching. 

He married Jane Ryan in 1952 and emigrated to England, working as a teacher, a sculptor and then as a [[Copywriting|copywriter]] for an advertising agency. During this time he and his wife had their first son.<ref name="irishtimes.com">{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/william-trevor-dies-at-the-age-of-88-1.2876737|title=William Trevor, award-winning writer, dies at the age of 88|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] }}</ref> In 1952 he became an art teacher at [[Bilton Grange]], a prep school near Rugby. Trevor was commissioned to carve reliefs for several churches, including All Saints, [[Braunston]], [[Northamptonshire]]. In 1956 he moved to Somerset to work as a sculptor<ref>{{cite news |title=William Trevor, Irish writer – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/11/21/william-trevor-irish-writer-obituary/ |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=Daily Telegraph |date=21 November 2016}}</ref> and carried out commissions for churches. He stopped wood carving in 1960. 

His first novel, ''A Standard of Behaviour'', was published in 1958 (by Hutchinson of London), but received little critical success. He later disowned this work, and, according to his obituary in ''[[The Irish Times]]'', "refused to have it republished".<ref name="irishtimes.com"/> It was, in fact, republished in 1982 and in 1989.

In 1964, at the age of 36, Trevor was awarded the [[Hawthornden Prize]] for ''The Old Boys''. This success encouraged Trevor to become a full-time writer.

In 1971, he and his family moved from London to [[Devon]] in [[South West England]], first to [[Dunkeswell]], then in 1980 to [[Shobrooke]], where he lived until his death. Despite having spent most of his life in England, he considered himself to be "Irish in every vein".<ref>{{cite news|first=Tim|last=Adams|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2009/aug/02/tim-adams-william-trevor|title=William Trevor: the keen-eyed chronicler|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 August 2009|access-date=19 July 2016}}</ref>

William Trevor died peacefully in his sleep on 20 November 2016. He was 88 years old.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38055207|title=William Trevor, novelist and short story writer, dies aged 88|work=BBC News|date=21 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/21/irish-writer-william-trevor-dies-aged-88|title=Irish writer William Trevor dies aged 88|first=Sian|last=Cain|date=21 November 2016|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>

==Works and themes==
He wrote several collections of short stories that were well-received. His short stories often follow a [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov]]ian pattern. The characters in Trevor's work are typically marginalized members of society: children, the elderly, single middle-aged men and women, or the unhappily married. Those who cannot accept the reality of their lives create their own alternative worlds into which they retreat. A number of the stories use [[Gothic fiction|Gothic]] elements to explore the nature of evil and its connection to madness. Trevor acknowledged the influence of [[James Joyce]] on his short-story writing, and "the odour of ashpits and old weeds and offal" can be detected in his work,{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} but the overall impression is not of gloominess, since, particularly in his early work, the author's wry humour offers the reader a tragicomic version of the world. He adapted much of his work for stage, television and radio. In 1990, ''[[Fools of Fortune]]'' was made into a film directed by [[Pat O'Connor (director)|Pat O'Connor]], followed by a [[Felicia's Journey (film)|1999 film]] adaptation of ''[[Felicia's Journey]]'', which was directed by [[Atom Egoyan]].

Trevor set his stories in both England and Ireland; they range from black comedies to tales based on Irish history and politics. A common theme is the tension between [[Protestantism in Ireland|Protestant]] (usually [[Church of Ireland]]) landowners and [[Irish Catholic|Catholic]] tenants. His early books are peopled by eccentrics who speak in a pedantically formal manner and engage in hilariously comic activities that are recounted by a detached narrative voice. Instead of one central figure, the novels feature several protagonists of equal importance, drawn together by an institutional setting, which acts as a convergence point for their individual stories. The later novels are thematically and technically more complex. The operation of [[grace in Christianity|grace]] in the world is explored, and several narrative voices are used to view the same events from different angles. [[Unreliable narrator]]s and different perspectives reflect the fragmentation and uncertainty of modern life. Trevor also explored the decaying institution of the "Big House" in his novels ''Fools of Fortune'' and ''[[The Story of Lucy Gault]]''. {{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

==Awards and honours==
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Trevor was a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and [[Aosdána]]. He was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|honorary CBE]] in 1977 for "services to literature", and was made a [[Royal Society of Literature|Companion of Literature]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rslit.org/index.php?n=Awards.CompanionsOfLiterature|title=Royal Society of Literature}}</ref> In 2002 he received an [[Order of the British Empire|honorary KBE]] in recognition of his services to literature.<ref>[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20080610193920/http%3A//www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/media_releases/2810.aspx Department for Culture, Media and Sport]</ref>  He won the 2008 [[Nonino#Winners|International Nonino Prize]] in Italy.

Trevor was nominated for the [[Booker Prize]] five times, making the shortlist in 1970, 1976, 1991 and 2002, and the longlist in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/authors/60 |title=William Trevor |publisher=Man Booker Prize |access-date=4 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203020006/http://themanbookerprize.com/prize/authors/60 |archive-date=3 December 2010 }}</ref> He won the [[Costa Book Awards|Whitbread Prize]] three times and the [[Hawthornden Prize]] once.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/william-trevor-the-quiet-chronicler-of-the-lost-and-the-damned-178484.html|title=William Trevor: The quiet chronicler of the lost and the damned|work=The Independent|first=Catherine|last=Pepinster |author-link=Catherine Pepinster|date=29 September 2002|access-date=4 July 2010}}</ref>

Since 2002, when non-American authors became eligible to compete for the [[O. Henry Award]], Trevor won the award four times, for his stories ''Sacred Statues'' (2002), ''The Dressmaker's Child'' (2006), ''The Room'' (2007), a juror favourite of that year, and ''Folie à Deux'' (2008).

Trevor was shortlisted for the [[International Dublin Literary Award]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite news|first=Eileen|last=Battersby|author-link=Eileen Battersby|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/0412/1224294471315.html|title=William Trevor makes an Impac|newspaper=The Irish Times|publisher=Irish Times Trust|date=12 April 2011|access-date=12 April 2011}}</ref>

=== Literary wins and nominations ===
* 1965: [[Hawthornden Prize]] for ''[[The Old Boys]]''<ref>{{cite book |last=Medrano |first=Juan Díez  |date=Jan 24, 2010 |title=Framing Europe: Attitudes to European Integration in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zuo9DwAAQBAJ&q=Whitbread+Prize+william+trevor+1994&pg=PA273 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |page=273 |isbn=9780691146508 }}</ref>
* 1970: ''[[Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel]]'' was shortlisted for the [[Booker Prize]]<ref>[http://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/1970 The Man Booker Prize 1970]</ref>
* 1975: [[Royal Society of Literature]] for ''Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories''
* 1976: [[Costa Book Awards|Whitbread Award]] for ''[[The Children of Dynmouth]]''
** Allied Irish Banks Prize for fiction
** [[Heinemann Award]]
** Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
* 1980: [[Giles Cooper Awards|Giles Cooper Award]] for ''Beyond the Pale''
* 1982: Giles Cooper Award for ''Autumn Sunshine''
* 1982: [[Jacob's Awards|Jacob's Award]] for TV adaptation of ''The Ballroom of Romance''
* 1983: [[Costa Book Awards|Whitbread Prize]] for ''Fools of Fortune ''
* 1991: ''Reading Turgenev'' was shortlisted for the [[Booker Prize]]
* 1994: [[Costa Book Awards|Whitbread Prize]] Best Novel for ''[[Felicia's Journey]]''
* 1999: [[David Cohen Prize]] by the [[Arts Council England]] in recognition of his work.
* 2001: [[Irish Literature Prize]]
* 2002: [[Irish PEN Award]]<ref>[http://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/1991 The Man Booker Prize 1970]</ref>
* 2002: ''[[The Story of Lucy Gault]]'' was shortlisted for the [[Booker Prize]] and the [[Whitbread Book Award]]
* 2003: [[Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award]] at the [[Listowel]] Writers' Week
* 2008: [[Irish Book Awards|Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature]]

==Legacies==
A monument to William Trevor was unveiled in Trevor's native [[Mitchelstown]] on 25 August 2004. It is a bronze sculpture by Liam Lavery and Eithne Ring in the form of a lectern, with an open book incorporating an image of the writer and a quotation, as well as the titles of his three [[Costa Book Awards|Whitbread Prize]]-winning works, and two others of significance.{{Citation needed|date=March 2010}}

On 23 May 2008, the eve of his 80th birthday, a commemorative plaque, indicating the house on Upper Cork Street, Mitchelstown, where Trevor was born, was unveiled by Louis McRedmond. {{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

==Bibliography==
{{Incomplete list|date=January 2015}}

===Novels and novellas===
* ''[[A Standard of Behaviour]]'' (Hutchinson, 1958)
* ''[[The Old Boys]]''  ([[The Bodley Head]], 1964)
* ''The Boarding House'' (The Bodley Head, 1965)
* ''The Love Department'' (The Bodley Head, 1966)
* ''[[Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel|Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel]]'' (The Bodley Head, 1969)
* ''Miss Gomez and the Brethren'' (The Bodley Head, 1971)
* ''Elizabeth Alone'' (The Bodley Head, 1973)
* ''[[The Children of Dynmouth]]''  (The Bodley Head, 1976)
* ''Other People's Worlds'' (The Bodley Head, 1980)
* ''[[Fools of Fortune]]'' (The Bodley Head, 1983)
* ''Nights at the Alexandra'' (Hutchinson, 1987)
* ''The Silence in the Garden'' (The Bodley Head, 1988)
* ''[[Two Lives (novel)|Two Lives]]'' (the two novellas ''Reading Turgenev'' and ''My House in Umbria'') ([[Viking Press]], 1991)
* ''[[Felicia's Journey]]'' (Viking, 1994)
* ''Death in Summer'' (Viking, 1998)
* ''[[The Story of Lucy Gault]]'' (Viking, 2002)
* ''[[Love and Summer]]'' (Viking, 2009)
* ''[[The Dressmaker's Child]]'' ([[Penguin Books]])

===Short story collections===
* ''The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories'' (The Bodley Head, 1967)
* ''The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories'' (The Bodley Head, 1972)
* ''The Last Lunch of the Season'' (Covent Garden Press, 1973)
* ''Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories'' (The Bodley Head, 1975)
* ''Old School Ties'' (Lemon Tree Press, 1976)
* ''Lovers of their Time'' (The Bodley Head, 1978)
* ''[[The Distant Past]]'' ([[Poolbeg Press]], 1979)
* ''Beyond the Pale'' (The Bodley Head, 1981)
* ''The Stories of William Trevor'' (Penguin, 1983)
* ''The News from Ireland and Other Stories'' (The Bodley Head, 1986)
* ''Family Sins and Other Stories'' (The Bodley Head, 1989)
* ''Outside Ireland: Selected Stories'' (Viking, 1992)
* ''The Collected Stories'' (Viking, 1992; Penguin, 1993, 2003)
* ''After Rain'' (Viking, 1996)
* ''Cocktails at Doney's'' ([[Bloomsbury Classics]], 1996)<ref>http://www.borders.co.uk/book/cocktails-at-doneys-bloomsbury-classic-s/437707/{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* ''[[The Hill Bachelors]]'' (2000) {{ISBN|978-0141002170}}
* ''[[A Bit On the Side]]'' (Viking, 2004) {{ISBN|978-0143035916}}
* ''Cheating at Canasta'' (Viking, 2007) {{ISBN|978-0670018376}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ruckenstein |first=Lelia.  |date=24 Dec 2007 |title=Irish Eyes, Unsmiling |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/style/2007/12/24/irish-eyes-unsmiling/fcb836e9-01da-4cf1-a902-422da678e5d0/ |work=The Washington Post}}</ref>
* ''Bodily Secrets'' ([[Penguin Great Loves]], 2007; new selection of stories from earlier collections) {{ISBN|978-0141033235}}
* ''The Collected Stories'' (Viking, 2009) {{ISBN|978-0140232455}}.
* ''Selected Stories'' (Viking, 2010), listed as "the second volume of his collected stories" {{ISBN|978-0-670-02206-9}}.
* ''Last Stories'' (Viking, 2018)

=== Short fiction ===
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|data-sort-value="third party"|The third party
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|{{cite magazine |author=Trevor, William |date=April 14, 1986 |title=The third party |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=62 |issue=8 |pages=35–44 |url=<!--access-date=-->}}
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|data-sort-value="women"|The women
|2013
|{{cite magazine |author=Trevor, William |date=January 14, 2013 |title=The women |magazine=The New Yorker |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/the-women-5%20<!--access-date=-->}}
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===Drama===
* ''[[Out of the Unknown]]'': "Walk's End" (1966)
* ''[[Play for Today]]: O Fat White Woman'' (1971,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114171332/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/42544 ''Play for Today: O Fat White Woman''], BFI Film and TV Database</ref> adaptation from short story)
* ''The Old Boys'' (Davis-Poynter, 1971)
* ''A Night with Mrs da Tanka'' ([[Samuel French Ltd|Samuel French]], 1972)
* ''Going Home'' (Samuel French, 1972)
* ''Marriages'' (Samuel French, 1973)
* ''The Ballroom of Romance'' (Pat O’Connor, 1982)
* ''Going Home'' (Samuel French, 1972)

===Children's books===
* ''Juliet's Story'' (The O'Brien Press, Dublin, 1991)
* ''Juliet's Story'' (Bodley Head, 1992)

===Non-fiction===
* ''A Writer's Ireland: Landscape in Literature'' ([[Thames & Hudson]], 1984)
* ''Excursions in the Real World: memoirs'' (Hutchinson, 1993)

===As editor===
* ''The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories'' ([[Oxford University Press]], 1989)

==See also==
* [[List of winners and nominated authors of the Booker Prize]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Sources==
* {{cite book| author = Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt| title = William Trevor: re-imagining Ireland| year = 2003| publisher = Liffey Press| isbn = 978-1-904148-06-7 }}
* {{cite book| author = Dolores MacKenna| title = William Trevor: the writer and his work| year = 1999| publisher = New Island Books| isbn = 978-1-874597-74-2 }}
* {{cite journal |first=Tom |last=McAlindon |title=Tragedy, history, and myth: William Trevor's Fools of Fortune |journal=Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies |year=2003 }}
* {{cite book| author = Stephanie McBride |author2=Irish Film Institute |title=Felicia's Journey |year=2006 |publisher=Cork University Press |isbn=978-1-85918-399-1 }}
* {{cite book| author = Kristin Morrison |title= William Trevor| year = 1993| publisher = Twayne Publishers| isbn = 978-0-8057-7032-2| url-access = registration|url=https://archive.org/details/williamtrevor0000morr}}
* {{cite book| author = Hugh Ormsby-Lennon| title = Fools of fiction: reading William Trevor's stories| year = 2005| publisher = Maunsel & Co| isbn = 978-1-930901-21-6 }}
* {{cite book| author = Gregory A. Schirmer| title = William Trevor: Study of His Fiction| year = 1990| publisher = Routledge| isbn = 978-0-415-04493-6 }}

==External links==
* [https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/william-trevor William Trevor] at The British Council
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070613175007/http://www.irelandliteratureguide.com/william_trevor.html William Trevor]}} at Ireland Literature Guide
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060102030549/http://readireland.ie/aotm/Trevor.html William Trevor] at Read Ireland
* [http://www.newyorker.com/search?q=William%20Trevor William Trevor] at ''[[The New Yorker]]''
* Archival material at {{wikidata|qualifier|property|P485|Q24568958|P856|format=\[%q %p\]}}
* {{cite interview |interviewer=Mira Stout |title=William Trevor, The Art of Fiction No. 108 |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2442/the-art-of-fiction-no-108-william-trevor |date=Spring 1989 |periodical=[[The Paris Review]] |issue=110}}

;Interviews
* [https://archive.today/20120211054434/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/trevor_transcript.shtml Interview with John Tusa, BBC Radio 2010]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mb139 Interview with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 2009]

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