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William Trevor

Irish writer (1928-2016) · Ireland · On the map · Writers · Died at 88

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.

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2016Died20 November 20162011Honorary DoctorateAward2008International Nonino PrizeAward2007O. Henry AwardAward2002Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward1976Heinemann AwardAward1965Hawthornden PrizeAward1928Born24 May 1928

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Honorary Doctorate2011

International Nonino Prize2008

O. Henry Award2007

Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire2002

Heinemann Award1976

Hawthornden Prize1965

Irish PEN Award

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

AWB Vincent Literary Award

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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.

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