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John Banville

Ireland   (1945 - )
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Benjamin Black
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About John Banville
John Banville was born in Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books are Nightspawn, Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus, Kepler, The Newton Letter, Mefisto, The Book of Evidence (which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize), Ghosts, Athena, The Untouchable and Eclipse. He lives in Dublin where he is at work on his latest novel, Shroud.
 
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The Infinities
The Infinities

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The Infinities
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Series
Doctor CopernicusKeplerThe Newton Letter: An Interlude
 
Non fiction
Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City
 
Awards
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel winner (1976) : Doctor Copernicus
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1989) : The Book of Evidence
Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (1997) : The Untouchable
The Booker Prize Best Novel winner (2005) : The Sea


John Banville recommends
A Landing On the Sun
A Landing On the Sun (1991)
Michael Frayn
"His work is as darkly ambiguous as that of Chekhov... and leaves one feeling an equal measure of laughter and sorrow."
Death and Nightingales
Death and Nightingales (1992)
Eugene McCabe
"It should put Eugene McCabe in the first rank of contemporary Irish novelists."
My House in Umbria
My House in Umbria (2003)
William Trevor
"Trevor's is among the most subtle and sophisticated fiction being written today."
Inside
Inside (2006)
Kenneth J Harvey
"A tough, unrelenting novel, thrilling and darkly eloquent and, in the end, a celebration of what life offers in even the harshest of circumstances."
The Informers
The Informers (2008)
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
"A fine and frightening study of how the past preys upon the present, and an absorbing revelation of a little-known wing of the theatre of the Nazi war."
The Truth About Love
The Truth About Love (2009)
Josephine Hart
"An ambitious and poetic weaving of a long-ago family tragedy into the tragic history, and histories, of our time. Josephine Hart has come home in triumph."



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