Irish author William Trevor has received an honorary knighthood in London today in recognition of his services to literature.
Considered to be among the greatest living Irish writers of fiction, Mr Trevor is a prolific author of short stories and novels. He has also adapted several of his own works for the stage, television and radio.
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William Trevor
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Over the last four decades Mr Trevor has written many novels, including
The Old Boys
, winner of the Hawthornden Prize;
The Children of Dynmouth
and
Fools of Fortune
, both winners of the Whitbread Fiction Award;
The Silence in the Garden
, winner of the
Yorkshire Post
Book of the Year Award;
Two Lives
, which was shortlisted for the
Sunday Express
Book of the Year Award and includes the Booker-shortlisted novella
Reading Turgenev; Felicia's Journey
, which won both the Whitbread Book of the Year and
Sunday Express
Book of the Year Awards; and,
Death in Summer
.
His latest novel, The Story of Lucy Gaultwas short-listed for the 2002 Booker Prize for Fiction and recently, the Whitbread Prize.
Mr Trevor is a celebrated short-story writer, and his latest collection, The Hill Bachelors, also won both the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the Irish TimesLiterature prize.
In 1977 William Trevor was awarded an honorary CBE and in 1999 he received the prestigious David Cohen British Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement.
He has lived and worked in England since the 1950s but was born in Cork in 1928.