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 | | Short story writer, novelist and playwright, Trevor was born William Trevor Cox on May 24, 1928, in Mitchelstown, County Cork. |
 | | Trevor acknowledges the influence of James Joyce on his short story writing, and 'the odour of ashpits and old weeds and offal' can be detected in his work, but the overall impression is not a gloominess, since, particularly in the early work, the author's wry humor offers the reader a tragicomic version of the world. |
 | | In his third collection of stories, Angels at the Ritz, Trevor makes his first reference to the Northern Ireland Troubles, and in the following collections his observations deepen and darken, especially when the stories illustrate the coercive power of history. |
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