William Trevor (1928–2016)
Autor de La historia de Lucy Gault
Sobre El 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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Obras de William Trevor
Beyond the Pale [short story] 2 copias
Family Sins [short story] 2 copias
William Trevor's Selected Stories 2 copias
Men of Ireland [short story] 1 copia
Her Mother's Daughter 1 copia
Dreaming 1 copia
The Room [short story] 1 copia
The Women 1 copia
"in the Public Interest" 1 copia
After rain 1 copia
The story of Lucy Gault 1 copia
The Piano Teacher’s Pupil 1 copia
The Grass Widows [short story] 1 copia
the dance master 1 copia
DUKE LEXUAR TURGENIEVININ 1 copia
DUKE LEXUAR TURGENIE VIN 1 copia
Citindul pe Turgheniev 1 copia
August Saturday [short story] 1 copia
An Afternoon [short story] 1 copia
At Olivehill [short story] 1 copia
The Children [short story] 1 copia
Old Flame [short story] 1 copia
Faith [short story] 1 copia
Folie à Deux [short story] 1 copia
A Meeting in Middle Age 1 copia
The Love of a Good Woman 1 copia
A Complicated Nature 1 copia
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts 1 copia
Timothy's Birthday [short story] 1 copia
Trevor William 1 copia
Miss Smith [short story] 1 copia
Bravado [short story] 1 copia
A Trinity [short story] 1 copia
The Printmaker [short story] 1 copia
Coffee with Oliver [short story] 1 copia
A Husband's Return [short story] 1 copia
За чертой 1 copia
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Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Trevor, William
- Nombre legal
- Cox, William Trevor
- Otros nombres
- Trevor, William
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1928-05-24
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2016-11-20
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Ierland
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Somerset, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
Devon, England, UK - Educación
- Trinity College, Dublin (BA|1950)
St. Columba's College, Dublin, Ireland - Ocupaciones
- teacher
sculptor
advertising copywriter
author
playwright
screenwriter - Organizaciones
- Irish Academy of Letters
- Premios y honores
- Saoi, Aosdána (2014)
Honorary Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire (2002)
Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature (1994)
Honorary Commander, Order of the British Empire (1977)
International Nonino Prize (2008)
Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature (2008) (mostrar todos 17)
Irish Book Award Lifetime Achievement (2008)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2005)
O. Henry Award (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2003)
Irish PEN Award (2002)
David Cohen British Literature Prize (1999)
Lannan Literary Award (1996)
Bennett Award (1990)
Jacob's Award (1982)
Whitbread Prize (1976, 1983, 1994)
Hawthornden Prize for Literature (1964) - Agente
- PFD
Miembros
Debates
Folio Archives 299: Beyond the Pale and Other Stories by William Trevor 2010 en Folio Society Devotees (diciembre 2022)
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 116
- También por
- 50
- Miembros
- 12,365
- Popularidad
- #1,894
- Valoración
- 4.3
- Reseñas
- 289
- ISBNs
- 484
- Idiomas
- 18
- Favorito
- 67
La prosa sobria y luminosa de Trevor retrata con precisión fotográfica los detalles más reveladores de la vida cotidiana de unos personajes indefectiblemente ligados al entorno y al momento histórico que les ha tocado vivir, creando una historia de amor acorde con los más altos cánones de excelencia literaria y estética.… (más)