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John Banville

1945 - Today

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William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work. Banville has won the 1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 2003 International Nonino Prize, the 2005 Booker Prize, the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize, the 2013 Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Banville has received more than 952,788 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). John Banville is the 1,777th most popular writer (up from 2,851st in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 114th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 950k

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Banville ranks 1,777 out of 7,302. Before him are Ted Hughes, Felice Orsini, Miguel Hernández, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Aryadeva, and Vasyl Stus. After him are Patricia Cornwell, Väinö Linna, Tonino Guerra, Juan Donoso Cortés, Lajos Zilahy, and Antonio de Nebrija.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, John Banville ranks 154. Before him are Adam Zagajewski, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Carly Simon, Lee Jong-wook, Ilija Petković, and Gary Brooker. After him are Brenda Fricker, Frans Sammut, Rhonda Byrne, Baghdadi Mahmudi, Mustafa Balel, and Richard Henderson.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, John Banville ranks 70 out of 549. Before him are Kevin Farrell (1947), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), Brian Boru (941), J. D. Bernal (1901), Edmund the Martyr (841), and Malcolm II of Scotland (954). After him are Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810), Peter Lacy (1678), Brenda Fricker (1945), James Barry (1795), Saint Fiacre (607), and Vergilius of Salzburg (700).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, John Banville ranks 16. Before him are Joseph Murphy (1898), Ethel Voynich (1864), Saint Gall (550), Thomas Moore (1779), Christy Brown (1932), and Sheridan Le Fanu (1814). After him are Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Patrick Pearse (1879), Charles Maturin (1780), John Millington Synge (1871), Cornelius Ryan (1920), and John Boyne (1971).

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