William Trevor

William Trevor was born in Upper Cork Street, Mitchelstown in 1928 to a middle-class, Protestant family. After graduating from Trinity College with a degree in history, he moved to England. In 1954, he wrote his first novel, A Standard of Behaviour, which met with little critical success. His second novel, The Old Boys, won the 1964 Hawthornden Prize for Literature and marked the beginning of a long and prolific career as a novelist, short-story writer and playwright.

Three of Trevor's novels have won the prestigious Whitbread Novel of the Year Award: The Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune and Felicia's Journey. He has also written such celebrated short stories as The Ballroom of Romance, Three People and The Mourning.

He now lives in Devon, England and is a regular visitor to Mitchelstown.