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Birth Name: William John Banville
Age: 80, born 8 December 1945
Country of origin: 
Ireland
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William John Banville who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. Recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators, Banville is considered to be "one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today." Indeed, he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov."
Banville's career has seen him presented with numerous awards. His novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guin
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1. Albert Nobbs (2011)
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2. The Last September (1999)
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3. The Sea (2013)
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4. Reflections (1984)
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1. Breakfast (2000)
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2. Charlie Rose
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3. Tria33 (2015)
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4. Página 2
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1. The Sea
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3. Shroud
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