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John Banville

John Banville’s novels include The Revolutions Trilogy – Doctor Copernicus (1976), Kepler which won the Guardian Fiction Prize (1981) and The Newton’s Letter (1982) – The Book of Evidence (1989), The Untouchable (1997), The Sea (2005) which won the Booker Prize, and most recently The Inifinites (2009). He lives in Dublin and is Literary Editor of the Irish Times.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

The End?: Writers respond to John Barth

Various Contributors

'I suggest he put aside all his writing rituals and that he give away all his money – that way he might find his talent will be rebooted.'

Fiction | The Online Edition padlock
Fiction | The Online Edition padlock

The Enemy Within

John Banville

‘Feeling almost skittish all day. Exhausted now yet feverish also, like a child at the end of a party.’

Fiction | The Online Edition padlock
Fiction | The Online Edition padlock

Life and Art

John Banville

‘He arrived in Paris for the first time huddled on a hay cart.’

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