4. Awards
1964: Hawthornden Prize for Literature for The Old Boys
1964: Hawthornden Prize for Literature for The Boarding House
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
o Allied Irish Banks Prize for fiction
o Heinemann Award for Fiction
o 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: 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
5. Novels
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 Alone (Bodley Head, 1973)
The Children of Dynmouth (Bodley Head, 1976)
The Distant Past (Poolbeg Press, 1979)
Other People's Worlds (Bodley Head, 1980)
Fools of Fortune (Bodley Head, 1983)
Nights at the Alexandra (Hutchinson, 1987)
The Silence in the Garden (Bodley Head, 1988)
Two Lives (Viking Press, 1991)
Felicia's Journey (Viking, 1994)
Death in Summer (Viking, 1998)
The Story of Lucy Gault (Viking, 2002)
Love and Summer (Viking, 2009)
6. Short Stories
The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1967)
The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1972)
Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1975)
Lovers of their Time (Bodley Head, 1978)
Beyond the Pale (Bodley Head, 1981)
The Stories of William Trevor (Penguin, 1983)
The News from Ireland and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1986)
Family Sins and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1989)
Outside Ireland: Selected Stories (Viking, 1992)
The Collected Stories (Penguin, 1993, 2003)
After Rain (Viking, 1996)
Cocktails an Doney's (Bloomsbury Classics, 1996)[5]
The Hill Bachelors (Viking, 2000)
A Bit On the Side (Viking, 2004)
Cheating At Canasta (Viking, 2007)
Bodily Secrets (Penguin Great Loves, 2007; new selection of several stories
from earlier collections)
7. Drama
The Old Boys (Davis-Poynter, 1971)
A Night with Mrs da Tanka (Samuel French, 1972)
Going Home (Samuel French, 1972)
Marriages (Samuel French, 1973)
Scenes from an Album
(Co-Op Books (Dublin), 1981)
8. Children Stories Non-Fiction
Juliet's Story A Writer's Ireland:
(Bodley Head, 1992) Landscape in Literature
(Thames & Hudson,
1984)
Edition works
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories
(Oxford University Press, 1989)