William Trevor

Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer William Trevor is best known for his short fiction, which he is widely regarded as among the finest in English. His collections include A Bit on the Side, and his novel Love and Summer earned him a final Booker Prize nomination in 2009. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was made a Saoi of Aosdána in 2014. He lived in England from 1954 until his death in 2016, at the age of 88.