John Banville
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John Banville (Wexford, 8 december 1945) is een Ierse schrijver.
The Book of Evidence, één van z'n vele werken, werd genomineerd voor de Booker Prize in 1989, en won hetzelfde jaar de Guinness Peat Aviation Award. Zijn recentste boek The Sea, won de Booker Prize in 2005.
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[bewerk] Prijzen
| Jaar | Prijs | Voor |
| 1976 | James Tait Black Memorial Prize | Doctor Copernicus |
| 1981 | Guardian Fiction Prize | Kepler |
| Allied Irish Bank Fiction Prize | ||
| American-Irish Foundation Award | Birchwood | |
| 1989 | Guinness Peat Aviation Award | The Book of Evidence |
| 1989 | Booker Prize (shortlisted) | The Book of Evidence |
| 2005 | Booker Prize | The Sea |
[bewerk] Werken
- Long Lankin (1970; revised ed.1984)
- Nightspawn (1971)
- Birchwood (1973)
- Doctor Copernicus: A Novel (1976)
- Kepler, a Novel (1981)
- The Newton Letter: An Interlude (1982)
- Mefisto (1986)
- The Book of Evidence (1989)
- Ghosts (1993)
- The Broken Jug: After Heinrich von Kleist (1994) - a play
- Athena: A Novel (1995)
- The Ark (1996)
- The Untouchable (1997)
- God's Gift: A Version of Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist (2000)
- Eclipse (2000)
- Shroud (2002)
- Prague Pictures: Portrait Of A City (2003)
- The Sea, (2005)
- Love In The Wars (adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea, 2005)
[bewerk] Andere bronnen
- John Banville, a critical study by Joseph McMinn; Gill and MacMillan; ISBN 0717118037
- The Supreme Fictions of John Banville by Joseph McMinn; (October 1999); Manchester University Press; ISBN 0719053978
- John Banville: A Critical Introduction by Rudiger Imhof (October 1998) Irish American Book Co; ISBN 0863275826
- John Banville: Exploring Fictions by Derek Hand; (June 2002); Liffey Press; ISBN 1904148042
