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  1. 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.

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  2. 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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  3. 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 ...

  4. John Banville is an Irish author of fiction as well as playwright and screenwriter. He is known for his darkly humorous writing, precise forensic style, and thick poetry. He was born in Wexford, Ireland, on December 8, 1945. Banville also writes under the pen name of Benjamin Black, under which he wrote Christine Falls and then The Silver Swan.

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    • April in Spain (Quirke, #8)
    • The Book of Evidence (The Freddie Montgomery Trilogy #1)
  5. 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...

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  7. John Banville bibliography. John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. [1] He has won the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature; has been ...

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