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William Trevor

Male : Novelist
Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Mitchelstown, Co Cork

Date of Birth : 1928

Pseudonyms : William Trevor Cox

Other Work : Art Teacher. Sculptor. Advertising Copywriter

Education : St Columba's College, Dublin & Trinity College, Dublin
1958-1965
A Standard of Behaviour
(1958 Hutchinson)
The Old Boys
(1964 Bodley Head) (1964 Viking NY) - 1964 Hawthornden Prize for Literature
The Boarding House
(1965 Bodley Head) (1965 Viking NY)

1966-1975
The Love Department
(1966 BH) (1967 Viking)
The Day We got Drunk on Cake
(1967 BH) (1968 Viking) - ss
The Girl
(1968 Samuel French) - Play
Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
(1969 BH) (1970 Viking)
Miss Gomez and the Brethren
(1971 BH)
The Old Boys
(1971 Davis-Poynter) - Play
A Night with Mrs Da Tonka
(1972 Samuel French) - Play
Going Home
(1972 Samuel French) - Play
The Ballroom of Romance & Other Stories
(1972 BH £2.25) (1972 Viking)
Elizabeth Alone
(1973 BH) (1974 Viking)
Marriages
(1973 Samuel French) - Play
The Last Lunch of the Season
(1973 Covent Garden Press, London) - 500 in card covers
+ signed edition of 100 numbered
Dreaming
(1973 Stellar Press - 225) (1973 BH)
[This is an extract from Elizabeth Alone]
Angels at the Ritz & Other Stories
(1975 BH) (1976 Viking) - ss

1976-1985
The Children of Dynmouth
(1976 BH) (1977 Viking) - Whitbread Prize
Old School Ties
(1976 Lemon Tree Press) - ss
Lovers of Their Time & Other Stories
(1978 BH) - 225 signed (1978 Viking)
The Distant Past
(1979 Poolbeg Press)
Other People's Worlds
(1980 BH) (1981 Viking)
Scenes from an Album
(1981 Co-op Books, Dublin) - Play
Beyond the Pale & Other Stories
(1981 BH £6.95) (1982 Viking)
Fools of Fortune
(1983 BH) (1983 Viking) - Whitbread Prize
+ 50 signed copies
(1983 Kenny's of Galloway)
[Filmed in 1990]
A Writer's Ireland - Landscape in Literature
(1984 Viking) (1984 Thames & Hudson)

1986-1990
The News from Ireland & Other Stories
(1986 BH) (1986 Viking)
+ 50 Numbered and signed
(1986 Kenny's of Galloway)
Nights at the Alexandria
(1987 Hutchinson) (1987 Harper)
The Silence in the Garden
(1988 BH £9.95) (1988 Viking)
+ 150 signed and Numbered
(1988 London Ltd Editions)
(Ed) The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (1989 OUP)
Family Sins & Other Stories
(1990 BH £11.95) (1990 Viking)

1991-1995
Two Lives
(contains "Reading Turgenev" & "My House in Umbria" (1991 Viking £13.99)
(1991 Viking US)
[My House in Umbria filmed in 2004]
Juliet's Story
(1991 O'Brien Press, Dublin) - Brian Bourke
(1992 Bodley Head) - Robin Bell Corfield
Excursions in the Real World
(1993 Hutchinson £16.99)
The Collected Stories
(1993 Viking) - 100 signed
Excursions in the Real World
(1993 London Limited Editions) - 150 Signed
Felicia's Journey
(1994 Viking £15)
[Filmed in 1999]
Outside Ireland : Selected Stories
(1995 Penguin £6.99) - pb
Marrying Damian
(1995 Colophon Press) - 175 signed & Numbered
+ 26 Lettered and Signed

After 1996
The Piano Tuner's Wives
(1996 Clarion Press) - 250 in card covers. Paul Hogarth
+ 249 signed by Story & Paul Hogarth
After Rain
(1996 Viking £16) - ss
Death of a Professor
(1997 Colophon Press) - 200 Numbered & signed
+ 32 Lettered and signed
Death in Summer
(1998 Viking £15.99)
The Hill Bachelors
(2000 Viking)
The Story of Lucy Gault
(2002 Viking £16.99)
Nominated for the Booker Prize
A Bit on the Side
(2004 Viking £16.99)

READING
Kristen Morrison : William Trevor's System of Correspondences
(1987 Autumn, in 'Massachusetts Review')
Gregory A Schirmer : William Trevor - A Study of His Fiction
(1990 Routledge)
David Rees : Bibliography of Muriel Spark, William Trevor & Ian McEwan
(1992 Colophon Press) - 200 numbered
+ 26 Lettered and signed

Related Writers

Booker Prize
Paul Hogarth
Whitbread Prize


See also

Booker Prize Authors
Muriel Sarah Spark