John Banville

Irish author (born 1945)

William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. A former member of Aosdána, he voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer. Banville has been publishing books since 1970, when a short story collection appeared, with his first novels emerging soon after.

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