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John Banville

1945 - Today

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William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. 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. Banville has won the 1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 2003 International Nonino Prize, the 2005 Booker Prize, the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize, the 2013 Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Banville is the 1,926th most popular writer (down from 1,776th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 70th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Irish Writer.

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Among writers, John Banville ranks 1,926 out of 7,302. Before him are Isaac Titsingh, Azar Nafisi, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Christian Jacq, Arseny Tarkovsky, and Gitta Sereny. After him are Mikhail Zoshchenko, Petr Ginz, Daṇḍin, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Nelson Algren, and Mary Norton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, John Banville ranks 178. Before him are Barbara Carrera, Billy Drago, Bruce Spence, Carly Simon, Richard Hatch, and Everett McGill. After him are Baghdadi Mahmudi, Željko Bebek, Jarno Saarinen, Joseph Coutts, Pirri, and Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, John Banville ranks 98 out of 549. Before him are Dymphna (700), Edward Carson (1854), Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (1116), Maureen O'Sullivan (1911), James Barry (1795), and Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785). After him are Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715), Christy Brown (1932), Andrew Graham (1815), Pierce Butler (1744), Edward England (1685), and Saint Kilian (640).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, John Banville ranks 17. Before him are Iris Murdoch (1919), Saint Gall (550), Ethel Voynich (1864), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), Thomas Moore (1779), and Oliver Goldsmith (1728). After him are Christy Brown (1932), Charles Maturin (1780), Cornelius Ryan (1920), John Millington Synge (1871), Patrick Pearse (1879), and Seán O'Casey (1880).

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