was nominated for the Booker Prize five times, making the shortlist in 1970, 1976, 1991 and 2002, and the longlist in 2009. He won the Whitbread Prize three times and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature once. Since 2002, when non-American authors became eligible to compete for the O. Henry Award, Trevor 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 Folie à Deux (2008). Trevor was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011. Recognition 1965: Hawthornden Prize for Literature for The Old Boys 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 The Man Booker Prize 1970 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 Legacies A monument to William Trevor was unveiled in Trevor's native Mitchelstown on 25 August 2004. It is a bronze sculpture by Liam Lavery and Eithne Ring in the form of a lectern, with an open book incorporating an image of the writer and a quotation, as well as the titles of his three Whitbread Prize-winning works, and two others of significance. On 23 May 2008, the eve of his 80th birthday, a commemorative plaque, indicating the house on Upper Cork Street, Mitchelstown where Trevor was born, was unveiled by Louis McRedmond. Bibliography Novels and novellas A Standard of Behaviour (Hutchinson, 1958) The Old Boys (Bodley Head, 1964) The Boarding House (Bodley Head, 1965) The Love Department (Bodley Head, 1966) Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (Bodley Head, 1969) Miss Gomez and the Brethren (Bodley Head, 1971) Elizabeth