Website of the author and playwright Trevor Hoyle
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Biography of Trevor Hoyle
Trevor Hoyle worked as an actor, an advertising copywriter and a lecturer in creative writing before becoming a full-time writer, mainly of novels and short stories. He also wrote and presented a weekly arts programme and made several documentary features for Granada TV. Since the mid-seventies he has published a wide range of fiction from mainstream novels (for John Calder) to speculative fiction, including The Last Gasp, which was a Doubleday Book Club Selection in the US and is now under option in Hollywood.
Radio plays by Trevor Hoyle
More recently he has written for radio, winning the Radio Times Drama Award with his first play GIGO. The actor in the title role of his play Randle's Scandals, about the Wigan comedian Frank Randle, won the Sony Award in 1993. Other prizes include the winning British entry in the "Transatlantic Review" short story competition and the Ray Mort Northern Novel Award.
Reissues and new work
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Down the Figure 7.An evocative Fictional Memoir set in a northern cotton town in the early 1950s. Where else would you expect to find sex and death? Published by Pomona: April 2010 |
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Photographs of Rochdale in the 1950s from Down the Figure 7. |
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In 2003 his novel Rule of Night, originally published in 1975, was reissued by Pomona to critical acclaim in the Guardian and City Life and named as Time Out's Book of the Week. In 2007 he wrote and presented a feature for BBC Radio 4 on the life and work of the writer Malcolm Lowry: The Lighthouse Invites the Storm.
He was a principal contributor to the OUP Guide to Fiction, edited by Jane Rogers.
Currently he is working on a novel Kingdom of Darkness.
Awards
• Radio Times Drama Award (for radio play GIGO)
• Sony Award (to the best actor in Trevor Hoyle's play Randle's
Scandals)
• Transatlantic Review Erotic Fiction Award
• Ray Mort Northern Novel Award