Banville
Americannoun
noun
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Mr. Banville is the author of “Venetian Vespers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
Theodore de Banville, the youngest poet of a famous generation now nearly extinct, and himself a sure and finished artist, knocked off, in his happiest vein, a few experiments in imitation of Charles of Orleans.
From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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