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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.
- John Banville
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John Banville is an Irish novelist and journalist whose fiction is known for being referential, paradoxical, and complex. Common themes throughout his work include loss, obsession, and destructive love. He also wrote a mystery series under the pseudonym Benjamin Black.
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Oct 20, 2022 · John Banville: ‘I’m 76 now, and I’m as baffled by the world as I was when I was five’. The Singularities, his new novel, may be the acclaimed author’s final work of literary fiction. If ...
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- December 8, 1945
- The Sea.
- Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
- April in Spain (Quirke, #8)
- The Book of Evidence (The Freddie Montgomery Trilogy #1)
May 20, 2023 · He is called back to duty and focus by the death of Rosa Jacobs, a Trinity College history scholar and progressive firebrand who is found dead in the driver’s seat of a car in a closed...
- Dan Fesperman
Nov 4, 2021 · John Banville, the Contemporary Novelist Who Avoids Contemporary Novels. “I read very little new fiction these days, to my shame and regret,” says the author John Banville, whose latest...
John Banville: ‘For 40 minutes I was a Nobel Prize winner’. The novelist has ditched his crime pseudonym for new thriller ‘April in Spain’, the follow-up to ‘Snow’, but he hasn’t thawed out just...
