Honorary knighthood for author

Irish author William Trevor was receiving an honorary knighthood today in recognition of his services to literature.

British Culture Secretary Tessa Jewell was presenting Mr. Trevor with a Knighthood of the British Empire (KBE) at the government’s Culture, Media and Sport headquarters in London.

The prolific short-story writer, novelist and playwright has written more than 30 works and his latest novel The Story of Lucy Gaul was short-listed for the 2002 Booker Prize for Fiction and has also been short-listed for the Whitbread Prize.

Trevor has already won the Whitbread on three occasions and in 1999 he received the David Cohen Literature Prize for a lifetime’s achievement as a writer.

He has lived and worked in England since the 1950s but was born in Cork in 1928.