He didn’t talk much about his work to my brother and me, but writing was what kept him going. The partiesLooking back on those London days, we seem to have had a happy, quite ordinary, middle-class way of life. Could you not put that forward?”Many of my memories of Dad are English ones from London and Devon. Last Stories by William Trevor is published by Viking today, May 24th (on what would have been his 90th birthday). The International Literature Festival Dublin is hosting an event, Celebrating William Trevor: John Banville, Dermot Bolger, Roy Foster, Yiyun Li and Danielle McLaughlin, this evening.

Source: The Irish Times May 24, 2018 00:00 UTC