1945 - Today
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. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Banville has received more than 847,847 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). John Banville is the 2,862nd most popular writer (down from 2,623rd in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 109th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Irish Writer.
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Among writers, John Banville ranks 2,862 out of 5,755. Before him are Raffi, Symeon of Polotsk, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Al-Asmaʿi, Claude Farrère, and Sven Lindqvist. After him are Antonio de Guevara, Jeppe Aakjær, Nathan Birnbaum, Mika Antić, Booker T. Washington, and Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav.
1835 - 1888
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 2,856
1629 - 1680
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 2,857
1963 - Present
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 2,858
740 - 828
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 2,859
1876 - 1957
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 2,860
1932 - 2019
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 2,861
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 2,862
1480 - 1544
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 2,863
1866 - 1930
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 2,864
1864 - 1937
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 2,865
1932 - 1986
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 2,866
1856 - 1915
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 2,867
1849 - 1921
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 2,868
Among people born in 1945, John Banville ranks 222. Before him are Stanisław Ryłko, Bianca Jagger, John Leslie, Roger Spottiswoode, Anton Zeilinger, and Driss Jettou. After him are David D. Friedman, Noel Redding, John Doman, Betty Mahmoody, Sheila, and Werner Schroeter.
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 216
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 217
1945 - 2010
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 218
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 219
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 220
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 221
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 222
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 223
1945 - 2003
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 224
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 225
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 226
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 227
1945 - 2010
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 228
Among people born in Ireland, John Banville ranks 115 out of 501. Before him are John Flanagan (1873), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), Jim Sheridan (1949), Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), and Daniel O'Connell (1775). After him are Richard Kirwan (1733), Paddy Moloney (1938), James Barry (1795), Cornelius Ryan (1920), Liam Cunningham (1961), and Peter Brown (1935).
1873 - 1938
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 109
1751 - 1816
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 110
1949 - Present
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 111
1946 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 112
1846 - 1891
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 113
1775 - 1847
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 114
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 115
1733 - 1812
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 116
1938 - 2021
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 117
1795 - 1865
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 118
1920 - 1974
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 119
1961 - Present
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 120
1935 - Present
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 121
Among writers born in Ireland, John Banville ranks 19. Before him are Thomas Moore (1779), Christy Brown (1932), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), Charles Maturin (1780), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), and Patrick Pearse (1879). After him are Cornelius Ryan (1920), John Millington Synge (1871), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Brendan Behan (1923), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), and Edna O'Brien (1930).
1779 - 1852
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 13
1932 - 1981
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 14
1814 - 1873
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 15
1780 - 1824
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 16
1728 - 1774
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 17
1879 - 1916
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 18
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 19
1920 - 1974
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 20
1871 - 1909
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 21
1904 - 1972
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 22
1923 - 1964
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 23
1852 - 1932
HPI: 48.79
Rank: 24
1930 - Present
HPI: 48.50
Rank: 25