William Trevor, KBE (born 24 May 1928), 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 (2009), 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".
He attended St Columba's College and Trinity College in Dublin. Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a teacher and a copywriter in an advertising agency.
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Playwright and short story writer. He won the Whitbread Prize in 1994, and was shortlisted four times for the Man Booker Prize.
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He was awarded an honorary Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2002 Queen's Honours List for his services to literature. He has lived in the United Kingdom since 1962.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
My House in Umbria
2003
TV Movie novella
Felicia's Journey
1999
novel
Screenplay
TV Series 1 episode, 1990 screenplay - 1 episode, 1991 writer - 1 episode, 1989
Fools of Fortune
1990
novel
Screen Two
TV Series novel - 1 episode, 1987 screenplay - 1 episode, 1987
Summer Season
TV Series short story - 1 episode, 1985 television adaptation - 1 episode, 1985
Access to the Children
1984
TV Movie
Attracta
1983
writer
The Blue Dress
1983
TV Movie
One of Ourselves
1983
TV Movie screenplay / story
All for Love
1982-1983
TV Series short story - 2 episodes
The Ballroom of Romance
1982
screenplay / short story
BBC2 Playhouse
TV Series screenplay - 3 episodes, 1981 script - 2 episodes, 1975 - 1980 adaptation & story - 1 episode, 1981 story - 1 episode, 1976
Play for Today
1971-1981
TV Series writer - 5 episodes
The Old Curiosity Shop
1979-1980
TV Mini-Series writer - 9 episodes
Teresa's Wedding
1980
TV Movie adaptation
My Father and Myself
1979
TV Movie
Secret Orchards
1979
TV Movie
Matilda's England
1979
TV Series writer - 3 episodes
Parables
1978
TV Series writer - 1 episode
ITV Playhouse
1971-1978
TV Series writer - 3 episodes
Scene
1976
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
ITV Sunday Night Drama
1976
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Shades of Greene
1975
TV Series adaptation - 1 episode
Wessex Tales
1973
TV Mini-Series adapted by - 1 episode
Armchair 30
1973
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1972
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Wednesday Play
1968-1970
TV Series writer - 3 episodes
Half Hour Story
1968
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Mystery and Imagination
1968
TV Series adaptation - 1 episode
Armchair Theatre
1967
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Out of the Unknown
1966
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Wednesday Thriller
1965
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Story Parade
1965
TV Series 1 episode
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Formulas for Seduction: The Cinema of Atom Egoyan
1999
Documentary acknowledgment: "Felicia's Journey" novel by
$500,000
