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Banville, John

Country/Region:
Ireland
Born:
December 8, 1945
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature, Children's literature
John Banville is one of Ireland’s best known and most prize-winning authors. He was awarded the Booker Prize in 2005, the Kafka Prize in 2007 and the prestigious Austrian state prize for European literature in 2014. He was elected to the British Royal Society of Literature in 2007 and the Italian Ordine della Stella d’Italia in 2017. As an author, he is regarded as an heir to Marcel Proust and Vladimir Nabokov. Since 1980, he has also been a literary critic for The New York Review of Books.

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