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He 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 .
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Oct 1, 2024 · John Banville (born December 8, 1945, Wexford, Ireland) is an Irish novelist and journalist whose fiction is known for being referential, paradoxical, and complex.
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Jul 24, 2024 · Stories published in magazines in the late 1960s became his first (and only) short story collection, Long Lankin (1970), quickly followed by two novels: Nightspawn (1971) and Birchwood (1973). In 1976, Banville published Doctor Copernicus , the first novel of his ambitious science tetralogy: a series devoted to the life and ideas of major ...
Banville saw his first novel published in 1970. It was a collection that was titled Long Lankin. The Irish Press closed in 1995, and Banville became a sub-editor for the Irish Times.
Irish novelist John Banville was born in Wexford in Ireland in 1945. He was educated at a Christian Brothers' school and St Peter's College in Wexford. He worked for Aer Lingus in Dublin, an opportunity that enabled him to travel widely.
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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 elected a Fellow of the Royal ...
His fiction is characterized by a densely referential style and by a preoccupation with the act of writing itself. Long Lankin (1970), his first book, was a collection of stories and a concluding novella, ‘The Possessed’, which was drawn on for his first novel, Nightspawn (1971).
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