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 Biography of John Banville
5,244 words, approx. 18 pages
 It would be unfair to label John Banville a "writer's writer," because it would suggest he is not a writer easily accessible to the majority of readers. Yet, there is no doubt that Banville's work has attracted much critical opinion emphasizing the... summary from source:
Biography of John Banville
2,949 words, approx. 10 pages
John Banville is the most interesting and resourceful Irish novelist of his generation. A writer who has let his published work do most of his talking for him, he has done more than most of his contemporaries to challenge accepted ideas of what might... 
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 John Banville Quotes
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 John Banville (born 1945-12-08 ) is an Irish novelist and journalist. Sourced The past beats inside me like a second heart. The Sea (2005, ISBN 0-330-48328-5 ) External links Wikipedia has an article about: John...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 John Banville Information
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John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an acclaimed Irish novelist and journalist. His novel, The Book of Evidence (1989), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker...
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 Artforum John Banville
07/01/2004: 1,581 words, approx. 5 pages STALK THIS WAY John Banville on Evan S. Connell THE DIARY OF A RAPIST BY EVAN S. CONNELL, INTRODUCTION BY A.M. HOMES NEW YORK: NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS. 264 PAGES. $14. There are times in a country's history when the entire nation seems... summary from source:
Irish Literary Supplement The Irish Banville.(John Banville: Exploring Fictions)(Book Review)
03/22/2003: 1,066 words, approx. 4 pages DEREK HAND John Banville: Exploring Fictions Contemporary Irish Writers Series The Liffey Press, 2002, OVER TWENTY YEARS AGO, IN A special number of Irish University Review, Rudiger Imhof made his case for John Banville as one of Ireland's most eloquent, and least... summary from source:
 AP News Achebe wins Booker Prize for fiction
6/13/2007: 606 words, approx. 2 pagesNigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first... summary from source:
AP News Anne Enright wins Booker Prize
10/16/2007: 551 words, approx. 2 pagesIrish writer Anne Enright won the Man Booker fiction prize Tuesday for "The Gathering," an uncompromising portrait of a troubled family.She is the second Irish writer to win the prize in the past three years, after John Banville's "The Sea" in 2005.Enright had been considered...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Tony E. Jackson
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In the following essay, Jackson traces one of Banville's major themes: "the situation of living everyday life in the context of postmodern understandings of knowledge and truth."
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Critical Essay by Brian McIlroy
6,102 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, McIlroy examines the connection between scientific and literary pursuits in Banville's The Newton Letter, and asserts that it "is an ingenious exploration of how conceptual frames, both artistic and scientific, are imagined and reimagined to produce new syntheses."
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Critical Essay by Seamus Deane
3,988 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following essay, Deane, a well-known poet, discusses Banville's awareness that the world he creates in his books is fictive.
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