William Trevor
William Trevor, KBE ( born May 24, 1928 in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland; actually William Trevor Cox ) is an Irish writer.
Biography
Trevor studied history at Trinity College in Dublin, worked after graduation as a teacher and made an early reputation as a sculptor. He moved to England in 1952, taught art in Rugby and Taunton. His first novel, A Standard of Behaviour was published in 1958. Between 1960 and 1965 he worked in London as a copywriter, until he set up his practice as a writer. He writes novels, short stories and plays. His stories are regularly published in the New Yorker for many years.
Trevor has won many literary awards and in 1977 appointed by Queen Elizabeth II Honorary CBE in 2002 an honorary knight.
He lives with his wife Jane in Devon, England.
Topics
In his so far 23 novels and 11 volumes of short stories Trevor deals with tensions between outsiders and society; his characters are mild eccentrics and melancholy loner. In many of his books, the relationship between Britain and Ireland and the aftermath of the violent common history play a central role.
His figures come with their highly developed emotions to the social constraints that are ready they often do not accept. In many cases it involves marginalized outsider: children, the elderly, solitary or unhappy married couples. They create their own reality, pull yourself back there and often push the limits of madness.
Awards and prizes
Works
Novels
- Mister Birds legacy, dt of Thomas Gunkel, Red Book, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-434-53031-2
- Miss Gomez and the pious brothers, dt of Thomas Gunkel, Red Book, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-434-53030-4
- The children of Dynmouth, dt of Thomas Gunkel, Red Book, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-88022-504-4
- Gates of happiness, German by Helga Huisgen, Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-608-95281-0
- Turgenev's shadow; German by Thomas Gunkel, heat Roth, Marburg 1993, ISBN 3-89398-109-8
- My House in Umbria, dt of Thomas Gunkel, Red Book, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-88022-483-8
- Julia's story, dt by Hilde Linnert, Ueberreuter, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-8000-2437-3
- Felicia's journey, dt of Thomas Gunkel, Red Book, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-88022-471-4
- Death in the summer, dt of Thomas Gunkel, Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8105-2018-7
- The story of Lucy Gault, German by Brigitte Jakobeit, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-455-07778-1
- Love and Summer, German by Hans-Christian Oeser, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-455-40201-8
Stories
- Escapade, German by Brigitte Jakobeit, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-455-07779-7
- Cheating at Canasta, German by Hans-Christian Oeser, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-40283-4
- Borrowed happiness. The best stories selected and with an afterword by Hanns Hisser ( includes In Isfahan, The Teddy Bears Picnic, The Teddy bears' Picnic ) A Trinity (A Trinity ), all German by Hans-Christian Oeser, as well as the handbag of Colette Nervi ( The Property of Colette Nervi ), dt of Thomas Gunkel; Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-455-40101-1
Plays
Other works
Publisher
Secondary literature
- Mary Fitzgerald - Hoyt: William Trevor - Re -Imagining Ireland. Liffey Press, Dublin 2003, ISBN 978-1904148067
- Dolores MacKenna: William Trevor - The Writer and His Work. New Iceland Books, Dublin 1999, ISBN 978-1874597742
- Tom McAlindon: Tragedy, history, and myth: William Trevor's Fools of Fortune. (Critical Essay ). In: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies. 2003
- Kristin Morrison: William Trevor. Twayne, New York 1993, ISBN 978-0805770322
- Hugh Ormsby - Lennon: Fools of Fiction - Reading William Trevor 's Stories. Maunsel & Co., Dublin 2004, ISBN 978-1930901216
- Gregory A. Schirmer: William Trevor - A Study of His Fiction. Routledge, London, 1990, ISBN 978-0415044936