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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. 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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  • 850k

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  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.28

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  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Banville ranks 2,862 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, John Banville ranks 222Before 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.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, John Banville ranks 115 out of 501Before 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).

Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, John Banville ranks 19Before 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).