Banville
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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It’s the perfect setting, in other words, for a novel by Mr. Banville, who is a master of shadow and suggestion and whose protagonists are often elusive, wavering and easily corrupted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Colson Whitehead and John Banville are two examples of literary novelists who started writing crime books.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2024
Parker wrote one additional Marlowe book in 1991, but the revival series went quiet until 2014, when Booker Prize–winning novelist John Banville published “The Black-Eyed Blonde” under the pen name Benjamin Black.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
He became the fifth Irish author to win the Booker Prize, after Iris Murdoch, John Banville, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright, the organisers of the competition said.
From Reuters ● Nov. 26, 2023
Henri Murger, Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Paul Verlaine, are here, and now Sainte-Beuve has come back to his favorite haunt.
From The Ways of Men by Gregory, Eliot
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