William Trevor

William Trevor (of her true name William Trevor Cox), born the May 24th 1928 in Mitchelstown in the County of Cork in Ireland, is Romancier, Nouvelliste, Dramaturge and Scénariste. Prize winner many Literary prizes as well in Ireland as in Great Britain or with the the United States, member of the Irish Academy, anobli by the queen Elisabeth II of England, Sir William Trevor knew a relatively late dedication in the countries Francophones.

Biography

William Trevor is born in 1928 in a family Protestante from Mitchelstown ( Baille Mhistéala ), small town of the surroundings of Cork where his/her father works like employee with the Bank off Ireland. It follows initially its studies to the college of St Columba, in the Comté of Dublin, then with Trinity College (Dublin), where it obtains its diploma of history. It is devoted then to the Sculpture.

Married to Jane Ryan since 1952, it leaves Ireland in 1954 to settle with London, where it occupies a few years a post of writer in an advertizing agency. In 1958, appears its first novel, has Standard Behavior off.

Its art of the news is often compared with that of Tchekhov.

William and Jane Trevor live in the Devon since many years. In 1989, William Trevor published an anthology of Irish news, The Oxford Book off Irish Short Stories , then, in 1993, her autobiography, entitled Excursions in the Real World .

The essence of its work was introduced in France by the writer and editor Daniel Arsand starting from the Années 1980.

Distinctions

  • Member of the Irish Academy off Letters
  • Member of the Aosdána
  • 1977: Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • 1994: Companion off Literature
  • 2002: Knight of the British Empire
  • 2004: Inauguration of the statue of William Trevor in Mitchelstown, on which are registered part of its literary prizes

Literary prizes

  • 1964 : Hawthornden Prize for Literature for The Old Servant boys
  • 1975: Royal Society off Literature for Angels At the Ritz and Other Stories
  • 1976: Whitbread Award for The Children off Dynmouth
  • 1976: Allied Irish Banks Prize for Fiction
  • 1976: Heinemann Award for Fiction
  • 1980: Gilles Cooper Award for Beyond the Blade
  • 1982: Gilles Cooper Axard for Fall Sunshine
  • 1982: Jacob' S Award for the adaptation of The Ballroom off Lovesong
  • 1983: Whitbread Prize for Fools off Fortune ( Blow dealt by fate )
  • 1991: Booker Prize for Reading Turgeniev ( By reading Tourgueniev )
  • 1994: Whitbread Prize for Felicia' S Journey ( the Voyage of Felicia )
  • 1999: David Cohen British Literature Prize (Arts Council off England)
  • 2001: Irish Literature Prize
  • 2003 : Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award

Since 2002, the O. Henry Award S, founded in 1919 in the United States to reward the best collections for news, are accessible to the nonAmerican authors. William Trevor obtained three times this price: in 2002 for Sacred Statues , in 2006 for The Dressmaker' S Child and in 2007 for The Room .

Works translated into French

; Novels
  • salt Statues, Plon, 1966
  • Splendors of the Alexandra , Subparagraph, 1989; Joelle Losfeld, 1999
  • Blow dealt by fate , 10/18 n° 3108,1999
  • the Silence of the garden , Phébus, 1995
  • By reading Tourgueniev , Phébus, 1993; Phébus/Libretto, 2001
  • My house in Ombrie , Phébus, 1994; Phébus/Libretto, 2001
  • the Voyage of Felicia , Phébus, 1996
  • To die the summer , Phébus, 1999
  • Lucy , Phébus, 2003

; News

  • Secret close friends , Subparagraph, 1991
  • Sins of family, Manufacture, 1991
  • Bad news , Phébus, 2000
  • Very Bad news , Phébus, 2001

Catalog of films

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Document of British Council devoted to William Trevor
  • Article of the '' Dublin Quarterly '' on the news of William Trevor

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