6/23/2023 0 Comments Reading Turgenev by William Trevor![]() ![]() The combination of his religion and the atmosphere at home made Trevor an outsider from the beginning, and one of the things he does brilliantly is to evoke the vast loneliness that overcomes so many of us, often in childhood and as people age. He was born William Trevor Cox in County Cork, Ireland in May 1928 of Protestant middle-class parents who had an uneasy marriage, who moved their three children frequently for economic reasons and whose general sourness and subsequent divorce made a lasting impression. Pritchett - to name only a few - in a parallel list of those who did not receive the coveted prize but who are probably greater than many of those who did. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, Virginia Woolf, Anna Akhmatova, Elizabeth Bowen and V.S. ![]() But, alas, it did not happen, and he joins many other great writers, like Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, D.H. Here is a link to a list of those awarded since 1901, though not during the Second World War. ![]() William Trevor was one of the great writers of the 20th century and for at least twenty years before his death in November 2016 I kept hoping that he would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. William Trevor - one of the finest writers of the 20th century. ![]()
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