WRITER

William Trevor

1928 - 2016

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William Trevor Cox (24 May 1928 – 20 November 2016), known by his pen name William Trevor, was 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. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, the last for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Trevor has received more than 401,466 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). William Trevor is the 4,293rd most popular writer (up from 4,354th in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 189th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Irish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Dictionary of National Biography
biography, dictionary, Dictionaries
The definitive compendium of British biographies, originally commissioned by publisher George Murray Smith of Smith, Elder & co. A series of editors and a long list of contributors followed the format first established by Sir Leslie Stephen. Entries range from one paragraph to several pages per person. The DNB was acquired by Oxford University Press circa 1912. They added supplements, errata, indices, and a _Concise_ version. Modern versions are published as the _Oxford Dictionary of National Biography_. A painstaking transcription from scanned public domain copies is underway at WikiSource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_DNB
1885
The old boys
Fiction, Married people, English fiction
1964
The boarding-house
Fiction in English, Boardinghouses, Fiction
1965
The changeling
Drama, Fiction, Drama texts: 16th to 18th centuries
Considered by critics to be one of the best tragedies of the English Renaissance, The Changeling was written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley and first published in book form in 1653. Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to Alonzo but in love with Alsemero. She convinces De Flores, who is in love with her, to help her be free of Alonzo - by murdering him. In a comic sub-plot, Alibius' young wife Isabella has two admirers, Franciscus and Antonio, who pretend to be madmen in order to see her.
1653
1976
The children of Dynmouth
Fiction, Teenagers, City and town life
1976

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Trevor ranks 4,293 out of 7,302. Before him are Veijo Meri, Florbela Espanca, Ibrahim Tuqan, Maeve Binchy, Gervase of Tilbury, and Iwan Bloch. After him are František Langer, Vincenzo Cerami, Colm Tóibín, Hervé Le Tellier, Diane Disney Miller, and Janko Matúška.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, William Trevor ranks 353. Before him are Giacomo Biffi, Sergey Kapitsa, Elina Bystritskaya, Minas Avetisyan, Károly Sándor, and Veijo Meri. After him are Dezső Bundzsák, Miguel Poblet, Ruth Westheimer, François Remetter, Charles David Keeling, and Michel Brault. Among people deceased in 2016, William Trevor ranks 284. Before him are Alan Young, Ruth Leuwerik, Merle Haggard, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Benoîte Groult, and Jimmy Bain. After him are Aurèle Nicolet, Fritz Stern, Georges Balandier, Akhtar Mansour, Pierre Aubert, and Prince Buster.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Trevor ranks 179 out of 549. Before him are Enda Kenny (1951), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Catald (700), Pat McDonald (1878), Seán O'Casey (1880), and Maeve Binchy (1939). After him are Colm Tóibín (1955), Luke Kelly (1940), Jason O'Mara (1972), Richard Kirwan (1733), Joshua Pim (1869), and Richard Steele (1672).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, William Trevor ranks 29. Before him are Edna O'Brien (1930), Brendan Behan (1923), Jane Wilde (1821), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Seán O'Casey (1880), and Maeve Binchy (1939). After him are Colm Tóibín (1955), Richard Steele (1672), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), George Moore (1852), and John Connolly (1968).

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