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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 Society of Literature; knighted by Italy; is one of ...
It is more connected to the circumstances of my life than my Banville books. [1] The eighth and ninth novels in the series, April in Spain and The Lock-Up, feature investigator St. John Strafford, a "Big House" Protestant, who is also a character in other Banville works, including Snow (2020) and The Secret Guests (2022). [2] [3]
William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. [2] 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.
"Snow," by John Banville, uses the tools of mystery perfected by his alter ego, Benjamin Black, only to overturn them in fascinating ways.
Quirke is a crime drama television series that was first broadcast on BBC One and RTÉ One in 2014. The three-part series is based on the Quirke novels by John Banville, writing under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, and was adapted by Andrew Davies and Conor McPherson.
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland .
Athena is a 1995 novel by the Irish author John Banville, the third in a series that started with The Book of Evidence and continued with Ghosts. [1] These three form the "Frames" trilogy, linked by the theme of paintings. The novel is centred around Morrow, a self-styled art expert. [2] He is asked by a businessman called Morden to ...
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