Awards and Honours
Trevor is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and Aosdána. He was awarded an honorary CBE in 1977 for "services to literature", and was made a Companion of Literature in 1994. In 2002 he received an honorary knighthood in recognition of his services to literature.
Trevor has been nominated for the Booker Prize five times, making the shortlist in 1970, 1976, 1991 and 2002, and the longlist in 2009. He has won the Whitbread Prize three times and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature once.
In 2002, non-American authors became eligible to compete for the O. Henry Award. Trevor has won the award four times, for his stories "Sacred Statues" (2002), "The Dressmaker's Child" (2006), "The Room" (2007), a juror favourite of that year, and for "Folie à Deux" (2008).
Trevor was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2011.
- Prizes
- 1964: Hawthornden Prize for Literature for The Old Boys
- 1964: Hawthornden Prize for Literature for The Boarding House
- 1970: Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize
- 1975: Royal Society of Literature for Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories
- 1976: Whitbread Award for The Children of Dynmouth
- Allied Irish Banks Prize for fiction
- Heinemann Award for Fiction
- Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
- 1980: Giles Cooper Award for Beyond the Pale
- 1982: Giles Cooper Award for Autumn Sunshine
- 1982: Jacob's Award for TV adaptation of The Ballroom of Romance
- 1983: Whitbread Prize for Fools of Fortune
- 1991: Reading Turgenev was shortlisted for the Booker Prize
- 1994: Whitbread Prize Best Novel for Felicia's Journey
- 1999: David Cohen Prize by the Arts Council of England in recognition of his work.
- 2001: Irish Literature Prize
- 2002: Irish PEN Award
- 2002: The Story of Lucy Gault was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award
- 2003: Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award at the Listowel Writers' Week
- 2008: Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature
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