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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. His name was also mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Trevor has received more than 376,771 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William Trevor is the 4,367th most popular writer (down from 3,362nd in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 139th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 24

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  • 3.39

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  • 3.29

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Trevor ranks 4,367 out of 5,755Before him are Atiq Rahimi, Vitaly Bianki, Rosa Chacel, Mordecai Kaplan, Johann von Rist, and Tabitha King. After him are Ariel Dorfman, Marietta Shaginyan, Boris Vasilyev, Edwin Atherstone, István Fekete, and Daniela Hodrová.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, William Trevor ranks 345Before him are Mikio Sato, Dezső Bundzsák, Koko Taylor, Serge Bourguignon, Alice Drummond, and Mário Pinto de Andrade. After him are Tom Lantos, Simón Díaz, Marian Seldes, Barbara Ann Scott, Sivaji Ganesan, and Lucho Gatica. Among people deceased in 2016, William Trevor ranks 290Before him are Alice Drummond, Rudy Van Gelder, Émile Derlin Zinsou, Fritz Stern, Hanoi Hannah, and Anne Jackson. After him are Ali Javan, Pierre Tchernia, Ruth Leuwerik, Robert Fano, Lutz D. Schmadel, and Jiří Tichý.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Trevor ranks 190 out of 501Before him are Herbert Brenon (1880), Yvonne Farrell (1951), Jane Wilde (1821), Richard Steele (1672), Tim O'Reilly (1954), and Patrick Hillery (1923). After him are Pat McDonald (1878), William Quan Judge (1851), Robbie Keane (1980), Veronica Guerin (1958), George Moore (1852), and Matt McGrath (1875).

Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, William Trevor ranks 30Before him are Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Edna O'Brien (1930), Seán O'Casey (1880), Maeve Binchy (1939), Jane Wilde (1821), and Richard Steele (1672). After him are George Moore (1852), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), John Boyne (1971), Michael Scott (1959), William McGonagall (1825), and Eoin Colfer (1965).