John Banville

John Banville is an Irish novelist, born December 8, 1945 in Wexford. He was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize (Book of Evidence), and won the Guinness Peat Aviation Award the same year. His latest novel,(The Sea), has been shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize.

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December 8 - 1945 - Wexford - Booker Prize - Guinness Peat Aviation Award

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He has previously worked as literary editor of the Irish Times.

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Banville is known for his precise (some would say cold) prose style, Nabokovian in inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators.

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