Tuesday the 13th
William Trevor Books
A Standard of Behaviour (Hutchinson, 1958) , The Old Boys (Bodley Head, 1964) , The Boarding House (Bodley Head, 1965) , The Love Department (Bodley Head, 1966) , The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1967) , Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (Bodley Head, 1969) , Miss Gomez and the Brethren (Bodley Head, 1971) , The Old Boys (play, Davis-Poynter, 1971) , A Night with Mrs da Tanka (play, Samuel French, 1972) , Going Home (play, Samuel French, 1972) , The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1972) , Elizabeth Alone (Bodley Head, 1973) , Marriages (play, Samuel French, 1973) , The Last Lunch of the Season (Covent Garden Press, 1973) , Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1975) , The Children of Dynmouth (Bodley Head, 1976) , Lovers of their Time (Bodley Head, 1978) , The Distant Past (Poolbeg Press, 1979) , Other People's Worlds (Bodley Head, 1980) , Beyond the Pale (Bodley Head, 1981) , Fools of Fortune (Bodley Head, 1983) , The Stories of William Trevor (Penguin, 1983) , A Writer's Ireland: Landscape in Literature (Thames & Hudson, 1984) , The News from Ireland and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1986) , Nights at the Alexandra (Hutchinson, 1987) , The Silence in the Garden (Bodley Head, 1988) , Family Sins and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1989) , Two Lives (Viking, 1991) , Juliet's Story (Bodley Head, 1992) , Outside Ireland: Selected Stories (Viking, 1992) , Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs (Hutchinson, 1993) , Felicia's Journey (Viking, 1994) , After Rain (Viking, 1996) , Death in Summer (Viking, 1998) , Personal Essays (1999) , The Hill Bachelors (Viking, 2000) , The Story of Lucy Gault (Viking, 2002) , A Bit On the Side (Viking, 2004)
William Trevor Links
William Trevor - Contemporary Writers
Site http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth122
Novelist and short-story writer William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in the Republic of Ireland on 24 May 1928. He was educated at St Columba's College, County Dublin, and Trinity College, Dublin. He worked briefly as a teacher, and later as a copywriter in an advertising agency before he began to work full-time as a writer in 1965. He was also a sculptor and exhibited frequently in Dublin and London. His first novel, A Standard of Behaviour, was published in 1958.
William Trevor - Read Ireland
Site http://www.readireland.ie/aotm/Trevor.html
Short story writer, novelist and playwright, Trevor was born William Trevor Cox on May 24, 1928, in Mitchelstown, County Cork. His father's work as a bank official involved the family in several moves to other provincial towns. As a result, Trevor attended a number of schools, including St. Columba's College, County Dublin, where he came under the influence of the sculptor Oisin Kelly, who taught him art. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a degree in history and worked for a number of years as a sculptor, supporting himself by teaching. In 1953, the year following his marriage to Jane Ryan, a fellow student at Trinity, he won joint first prize in the Irish section of the Unknown Political Prisoner sculpture competition, and subsequently his work was included in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. Over the next few years he exhibited in Dublin and in a number of places in England, to which he emigrated in 1954.
William Trevor - Irish Writers Online
Site http://www.irishwriters-online.com/williamtrevor.html
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown Co Cork in 1928. His novels include The Old Boys (1964), which won The Hawthornden Prize; The Boarding House (1965); The Love Department (1966); Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neills Hotel (1969); Miss Gomes and the Brethern (1971); Elizabeth Alone (1973); The Children of Dynmouth (1976), which won the Whitbread Award 1976; Other People's Worlds (1980); Fools of Fortune (1983) which won the Whitbread Award 1983; The Silence in the Garden (1988) which won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award ; and Two Lives (1991), which was shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and includes the Booker-shortlisted novella Reading Turgenev. Felicia's Journey (1994) won both the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Sunday Express Book of the Year awards.
William Trevor - Fantastic Fiction
Site http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/william-trevor/
William Trevor was born in County Cork in 1928 and spent his childhood in various provincial Irish towns. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to England in 1953. He now lives in Devon. In 1977 William Trevor received an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature, and in 1998 he was awarded the prestigious David Cohen British Literature Prize for a lifetime's achievement in writing.
William Trevor - Munster Lit
Site http://www.munsterlit.ie/Conwriters/william_trevor.htm
William Trevor is probably one of the most prolific writers Ireland has produced. He has written close to twenty novels, fifteen collections of short stories, he has produced eleven theatre plays, thirteen radio plays and over thirty-seven television scripts. In 1977 he received a CBE and has won Whitbread awards in 1976, 1983, 1994 and 1995. with such a repertoire it is hard to believe that since the publication of his first novel in 1958, the literary recognition which he deserves has come at a relatively late stage of his career, Graham Greene, commenting on Trevor's collection of short stories Angels at the Ritz & Other Short Stories (1975) proclaimed it 'surely one of the best collections, if not the best collection since Joyce's Dubliners'. Being compared to one great literary giant by another huge literary figure may seem hyperbole. However, on examining the range and content of Trevor's writings one can see how valid Greene's statement is.
William Trevor - Britannica
Site http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9073324
original name William Trevor Cox Irish writer who is noted for his wry and often macabre short stories and novels, especially for the novel The Old Boys (1964), the story of an “old boys” committee, whose rapidly aging members plot and plan against each other, driven by searing memories of the insults and rivalries of their school days.
William Trevor - Random House
Site http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/wtrevor.html
Hailed as "probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" by The New Yorker and "an extraordinarily mellifluous writer, seemingly incapable of composing an ungraceful sentence" by The New York Times Book Review, William Trevor is one of our most elegaic chroniclers of loss.
William Trevor - Penguin
Site http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000016878,00.html
William Trevor was born in 1928 at Mitchelstown, County Cork, and he spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He attended a number of Irish schools and later Trinity College, Dublin. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters. He has written many novels, including The Old Boys (1964), winner of the Hawthornden Prize; The Children of Dynmouth (1976) and Fools of Fortune (1983), both winners of the Whitbread Fiction Award; The Silence in the Garden (1988), winner of the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award; Two Lives (1991), which was shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and includes the Booker shortlisted novella Reading Turgenev; and Felicia's Journey (1994), which won both the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Sunday Express Book of the Year awards. A celebrated short-story writer, William Trevor's latest collection, After Rain, is forthcoming in Penguin. He is also the editor of The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (1989). He has written plays for the stage and for radio and television; several of his television plays have been based on his short stories. Most of his books are published by Penguin.
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925