现年八十四岁的爱尔兰作家威廉·特雷弗(Wiliam Trevor),是当代英语文坛的泰斗。他在短篇小说和长篇小说上均取得了巨大的成就,被广泛视为英语世界当代最杰出的短篇小说家之一。在漫长的创作生涯中,特雷弗已创作出版了十八部中长篇小说,几百篇短篇小说,以及戏剧、散文、童书等各种作品。他曾三次获得惠特布莱德奖,五次获得布克奖提 Wiliam Trevor, an 84-year-old Irish author, is a leading contemporary English literary world. He has made great achievements in short stories and novels and is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding short story writers in the English-speaking world. In the long creative career, Trevor has created and published 18 novels, hundreds of short stories, as well as drama, prose, children’s books and other works. He won the Whitbread Award three times and the Booker Prize five times