# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-trevor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:26:57.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-trevor"
name: "William Trevor"
slug: "william-trevor"
description: "William Trevor Cox was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. Trevor won the 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."
tagline: "Irish writer (1928–2016)"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1928-05-24"
deathDate: "2016-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump