The Irish writer William Trevor has died at the age of 88, his publisher has announced.
Trevor, the author of more than 15 novels and many more short stories, was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize four times, most recently for The Story of Lucy Gault in 2002, the same year he was awarded an honorary knighthood for his services to literature. He also won the Whitbread prize three times and frequently contributed short stories to The New Yorker magazine.
His skill with the form drew comparisons with Chekhov, Maupassant and James Joyce. In a 1975 review of William Trevor’s short story collection Angels at the Ritz, Graham Greene described it as “one of the best collections, if not the best since James Joyce’s Dubliners.”
The Guardian.
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