Neglected Gems ... William TREVOR

ANOTHER sadly neglected writer is the Irish writer William Trevor, whose powers of observation and compassion are remarkable, to say the least, especially in his short stories. The “elder statesman” of the short-story writing fraternity has a prose style reminiscent of the Russian masters Anton Chekhov and Ivan Turgenev: lean, precise, economical and tightly wound.

Bibliography
TREVOR William [1928-] Short-story writer, novelist: awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize in 1998. Born William Trevor Cox in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland. NOVELS Love and Summer (2009); The Story of Lucy Gault (2002: shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award); Death in Summer (1998); Felicia’s Journey (1994: winner of the 1994 Whitbread Novel Award and the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award); Nights at the Alexandra (1987); The Silence in the Garden (1988: winner of the 1988 Yorkshire Post Award for Book of the Year); Fools of Fortune (1983: winner of the 1983 Whitbread Novel Award); Other People’s Worlds (1980); The Children of Dynmouth (1976: winner of the 1976 Whitbread Novel Award; shortlisted for the 1976 Booker Prize for Fiction); Elizabeth Alone (1973); Miss Gomez and the Brethren (1971); Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel (1969: shortlisted for the 1970 Booker Prize for Fiction); The Love Department (1966); The Boarding-House (1965: winner of the 1965 Hawthornden Prize for Literature); The Old Boys (1964: winner of the 1965 Hawthornden Prize for Literature); A Standard of Behaviour (1958); Low Sunday (1950) NOVELLAS Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria (1991: shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award); Reading Turgenev (1991: shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize for Fiction) STORIES A Bit on the Side (2004); The Hill Bachelors (2000: winner of the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction and the 2001 PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Short Stories); Ireland: Selected Stories (1998); Cocktails at Doney’s and Other Stories (1996); After Rain (1996); Outside Ireland: Selected Stories (1995); Ireland: Selected Stories (1995); The Collected Stories (1992); Family Sins and Other Stories (1989: shortlisted for the 1990 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction); The News from Ireland and Other Stories (1986); The Stories of William Trevor (1983); Beyond the Pale and Other Stories (1981); Lovers of Their Time and Other Stories (1978); Old School Ties (1976); Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories (1975: winner of the 1976 Heinemann Award and the 1975 Royal Society of Literature Award); The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories (1972); The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories (1967); The Distant Past and Other Stories (1979) NONFICTION A Writer’s Ireland: Landscape in Literature (1984) MEMOIRS Excursions in the Real World (1993) CHILDREN’S Juliet’s Story (1991) EDITED The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (1989)

Recommended
Novels: The Story of Lucy Gault (2002); Felicia’s Journey (1994); The Silence in the Garden (1988)
Novellas: Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria (1991)
Stories: A Bit on the Side (2004); The Hill Bachelors (2000); After Rain (1996); The Collected Stories (1992)