William Trevor

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, and attended Trinity College, Dublin. His many novels include: The Old Boys (1964), winner of the Hawthornden Prize, The Children of Dynmouth (1976) and Fools of Fortune (1983), both winners of the Whitbread Fiction Award; The Silence in the Garden (1988), winner of the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award; Two Lives (1991), which was shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and includes the Booker shortlisted novella Reading Turgenev; and Felicia's Journey (1994), which won both the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Sunday Express Book of the Year awards. A celebrated short story writer, Trevor's latest collection, Cheating at Canasta, was published in 2007. Trevor is also the editor of The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (1989) and has written plays for the stage and for radio and television. In 1976, Trevor received the Allied Irish Banks' Prize, and in 1977 he was awarded an honorary CBE in recognition of his valuable services to literature. In 1992 Trevor received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. William Trevor is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters. Fellow Irish writer John Banville considers his works to be among the most subtle and sophisticated fiction being written today.