William Trevor (1928–2016)
Autore di La storia di Lucy Gault
Sull'Autore
William Trevor Cox was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland on May 24, 1928. He received a degree in history from Trinity College in 1950. Before becoming a full-time author in 1965, he worked as a sculptor, a teacher, and a copywriter at an advertising agency. He exhibited his sculptures in mostra altro Dublin and England and was joint winner of the International Year of the Political Prisoner art competition in 1952. His first novel, A Standard of Behaviour, was published in 1958. His other novels include Other People's Worlds, Nights at the Alexandra, The Silence in the Garden, The Story of Lucy Gault, My House in Umbria, and Love and Summer. He won the Hawthornden Prize in 1964 for The Old Boys, the Whitbread Award in 1976 for The Children of Dynmouth, the Whitbread Award in 1983 for Fools of Fortune, and the Whitbread Award in 1994 for Felicia's Journey. His short story collections include The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories, The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories, Beyond the Pale, A Bit on the Side, Cheating at Canasta, and The Mark-2 Wife. The Hill Bachelors received the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Short Stories. He received the Allied Irish Banks' Prize in 1976, The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 1992, the David Cohen British Literature Prize in 1999, and the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature in 2008. In 1977, he was awarded an honorary CBE in recognition of his services to literature. He died on November 20, 2016 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di William Trevor
Three Early Novels: The Old Boys, The Boarding-House, The Love Department (2000) 56 copie, 3 recensioni
Beyond the Pale [short story] 2 copie
Family Sins [short story] 2 copie
Colegi de odinioară 1 copia
The Women 1 copia
August Saturday [short story] 1 copia
Dreaming 1 copia
Coffee with Oliver [short story] 1 copia
Her Mother's Daughter 1 copia
Men of Ireland [short story] 1 copia
the dance master 1 copia
"in the Public Interest" 1 copia
After rain 1 copia
The story of Lucy Gault 1 copia
The Piano Teacher’s Pupil 1 copia
A Husband's Return [short story] 1 copia
Faith [short story] 1 copia
The Printmaker [short story] 1 copia
Old Flame [short story] 1 copia
The Grass Widows [short story] 1 copia
Timothy's Birthday [short story] 1 copia
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts 1 copia
The Love of a Good Woman 1 copia
The Room [short story] 1 copia
Bravado [short story] 1 copia
An Afternoon [short story] 1 copia
At Olivehill [short story] 1 copia
The Children [short story] 1 copia
Folie à Deux [short story] 1 copia
A Trinity [short story] 1 copia
A Meeting in Middle Age 1 copia
A Complicated Nature 1 copia
Trevor William 1 copia
Miss Smith [short story] 1 copia
Andras vr̃ldar 1 copia
За чертой 1 copia
Opere correlate
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Spring (1962) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 1,864 copie, 32 recensioni
A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement, Summer (1991) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 936 copie, 20 recensioni
A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement, Winter (1976) — Introduzione — 880 copie, 15 recensioni
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Collaboratore — 465 copie, 4 recensioni
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Collaboratore — 180 copie, 2 recensioni
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Collaboratore — 54 copie, 1 recensione
A Very Irish Christmas: The Greatest Irish Holiday Stories of All Time (Very Christmas, 6) (2021) — Collaboratore — 15 copie, 2 recensioni
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Trevor, William
- Nome legale
- Cox, William Trevor
- Altri nomi
- Trevor, William
- Data di nascita
- 1928-05-24
- Data di morte
- 2016-11-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ierland
- Luogo di nascita
- Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
- Luogo di morte
- Somerset, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
Devon, England, UK - Istruzione
- Trinity College, Dublin (BA|1950)
St. Columba's College, Dublin, Ireland - Attività lavorative
- teacher
sculptor
advertising copywriter
author
playwright
screenwriter - Organizzazioni
- Irish Academy of Letters
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Hawthornden Prize for Literature (1964)
Order of the British Empire (Honorary Commander, 1977)
Jacob's Award (1982)
Bennett Award (1990)
Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature (1994)
Whitbread Prize (1976, 1983, 1994) (mostra tutto 17)
Lannan Literary Award (1996)
David Cohen British Literature Prize (1999)
Irish PEN Award (2002)
Order of the British Empire (Honorary Knight Commander, 2002)
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (2003)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2005)
International Nonino Prize (2008)
Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature (2008)
Irish Book Award Lifetime Achievement (2008)
O. Henry Award (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Saoi, Aosdána (2014) - Agente
- PFD
Utenti
Discussioni
Folio Archives 299: Beyond the Pale and Other Stories by William Trevor 2010 in Folio Society Devotees (Dicembre 2022)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 113
- Opere correlate
- 51
- Utenti
- 12,494
- Popolarità
- #1,878
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 293
- ISBN
- 485
- Lingue
- 18
- Preferito da
- 68
La morte di una giovane donna lascia una bimba orfana e il marito alla ricerca di una bambinaia: una di quelle che si presentano si infatua di lui e inizia a odiare la suocera che infine ha deciso di badare alla piccola. Il passato della ragazza in un orfanotrofio dai contorni inquietanti è visto attraverso gli occhi dell’amico Albert, giovanotto non proprio registrato che bada a una vecchia signora invalida: si tratta dello scontro di due mondi (proletario e medio-borghese che è stato alto) dal quale nessuno esce indenne.
La morte del titolo finisce per bussare due volte e così facendo può sembrare che le cose tornino a posto, ma il lettore fa davvero fatica a entrare in sintonia con uno qualsiasi dei personaggi: è probabilmente ciò a cui puntava lo scrittore così da poter insinuare nelle ultime righe l’ennesimo sospetto.
La scrittura distaccata riflette l’atteggiamento da analisi di cui all’inizio e non favorisce di certo la partecipazione creando una sensazione straniante che a volte rende poco confortevole immergersi nello scorrere del racconto.… (altro)