Awards & Winners

William Trevor

Date of Birth 24-May-1928
Place of Birth Mitchelstown
(Ireland, County Cork)
Nationality Republic of Ireland
Also know as Trevor Cox, William Trevor Cox
Profession Writer, Novelist, Author, Playwright, Screenwriter
William Trevor, KBE, is 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. A member of Aosdána, Trevor has resided in Devon, South West England, since the 1950s. Over the course of his long career he has written several novels and hundreds of short stories, for which he is best known. He has won the Whitbread Prize three times and has been nominated five times for the Booker Prize, most recently for his novel Love and Summer, which was also shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name has also been mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tim Adams, a staff writer for The Observer, described him as "widely believed to be the most astute observer of the human condition currently writing in fiction".

Awards by William Trevor

Check all the awards nominated and won by William Trevor.

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize The Story of Lucy Gault

1994


Costa Novel Award
Honored for : Felicia's Journey
Costa Book of the Year
Honored for : Felicia's Journey

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize Reading Turgenev

1983


Costa Novel Award
Honored for : Fools of fortune

1976


Costa Novel Award
Honored for : The Children of Dynmouth

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize The Children of Dynmouth

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel