John Banville

William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work.Banville has won the 1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 2003 International Nonino Prize, the 2005 Booker Prize, the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize, the 2013 Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, Italy made him a Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d'Italia (essentially a knighthood) in 2017. He is a former member of Aosdána, having voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.Born at Wexford in south-east Ireland, Banville published his first novel, Nightspawn, in 1971. A second, Birchwood, followed two years later. "The Revolutions Trilogy", published between 1976 and 1982, comprises three works, each named in reference to a renowned scientist: Doctor Copernicus, Kepler and The Newton Letter. His next work, Mefisto, had a mathematical theme. His 1989 novel The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the …

Books by John Banville

John Banville, Cormac McCarthy: Road (2019, Pan Macmillan)

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John Banville: The sea (Hardcover, 2005, Picador)

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John Banville: The Sea (Paperback, 2006, Pan Macmillan)

The Sea

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John Banville: Prague pictures (2004, Bloomsbury) No rating

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John Banville: The book of evidence (1991, Warner Books)

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John Banville: Birchwood (1984, Panther)

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John Banville: Shroud (Hardcover, 2002, Picador) No rating

Shroud

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John Banville: Mefisto (Paperback, 1999, David R Godine)

Mefisto

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John Banville: Singularities (2022, Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A.)

Singularities

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John Banville: Doctor Copernicus (Paperback, 1999, Picador)

Doctor Copernicus

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John Banville, John Banville: The sea (2005, Howes, Clipper) No rating

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John Banville: Long Lankin (1984, Gallery Press)

Long Lankin

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John Banville: The Blue Guitar (2015)

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