His early novels include The Old Boys, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and The Children of Dynmouth and Fools of Fortune both won the Whitbread Novel Award. His fiction, set mainly in Ireland and England, ranges from black comedies to stories exploring Irish history and politics, and often contain a subversive undertone. He wrote more than forty novels and collections of short stories, and is acclaimed in both forms of writing. William Trevor (1928 - 2016) was an Irish author of novels and short stories, and of plays for stage, TV and radio, rightly regarded as one of the finest writers to have emerged from modern Ireland.īorn in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he worked as a teacher and an advertising copywriter, and also as a sculptor, exhibiting frequently in Dublin and London.
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