William Trevor

Biografia

è nato nella Contea di Cork nel 1928 e ha trascorso la sua infanzia in diverse cittadine dell’Irlanda provinciale. Dal 1946 studiò storia al Trinity College di Dublino e poi andò in Inghilterra, nel 1953.
Il suo primo romanzo, A standard of Behaviour, fu pubblicato nel 1958. Sei anni più tardi, The Old Boys ricevette ottime critiche e l’Hawthornden Prize.
Oggi Trevor vive a Devon. Nel 1998 he vinto il prestigioso David Cohen British Literature Prize per la carriera.

Opere

Romanzi

• A standard of Behaviour, 1958
• The Old Boys (1964)
• The Boarding-House (1965)
• The Love Department (1966)
• Girl (1968)
• Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel (1969)
• Miss Gomez and the Brethren (1971)
• Going Home (1972)
• Night with Mrs. Da Tanka (1972)
• Last Lunch of the Season (1973)
• Elizabeth Alone (1973)
• Marriages (1974)
• The Children of Dynmouth (1976)
• Old School Ties (1976)
• Distant Past (1977)
• Other People’s Worlds (1980)
• Fools of Fortune (1983)
• Nights at the Alexandra (1987)
• The Silence in the Garden (1988)
• Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria (1991)
• Reading Turgenev (1991)
• Juliet’s Story (1991)
• Felicia’s Journey (1994)
• Marrying Damian (1995)
• Death of a Professor (1997)
• Death in Summer (1998)
• Summer Visitor (1999)
• Low Sunday, 1950 (2000)
• The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)
• My House in Umbria (2003)
• Love and Summer (2009)

Raccolte

• The Day We Got Drunk on Cake: And Other Stories (1967)
• The Ballroom of Romance: And Other Stories (1972)
• Angels at the Ritz: And Other Stories (1975)
• Lovers of Their Time: And Other Stories (1978)
• Beyond the Pale: And Other Stories (1981)
• Ireland: Selected Stories (1984)
• The News from Ireland: And Other Stories (1986)
• Family Sins: And Other Stories (1989)
• The Collected Stories (1989)
• Outside Ireland: Selected Stories (1995)
• Cocktails at Doney’s: And Other Stories (1996)
• After Rain (1996)
• Three Early Novels (omnibus) (1997)
• The Hill Bachelors (2000)
• A Bit on the Side (2004)

Saggistica

• A Writer’s Ireland: Landscape in Literature (1984)
• Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs (1993)
• Personal Essays (1999)

Trevor ha scritto anche numerose sceneggiature per la radio e la televisione, alcune tratte da racconti già scritti.

Premi e riconoscimenti

• Hawthornden Prize, 1964
• Whitbread Fiction Award, 1976 e 1983
• Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, 1988
• Whitbread Book of the Year 1994
• Sunday Express Book of the Year 1994
• David Cohen British Literature Prize, 1998