John Banville
Awards and honours

John Banville

Section Title: Awards and honours
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Year	Prize	Work	Ref(s)

1973	Allied Irish Banks' Prize	Birchwood

1973	Arts Council Macaulay Fellowship	Birchwood

1975	American Ireland Fund Literary Award	Doctor Copernicus

1976	James Tait Black Memorial Prize	Doctor Copernicus

1981	Guardian Fiction Prize	Kepler

Allied Irish Bank Fiction Prize	Kepler

American-Irish Foundation Award	Birchwood

1984	Elected to the Irish arts association, Aosdána

1989	Guinness Peat Aviation Award	The Book of Evidence

Booker Prize, shortlist	The Book of Evidence

1991	Premio Ennio Flaiano	The Book of Evidence

1997	Lannan Literary Award for Fiction	The Untouchable

2001	Voluntarily resigned from Aosdána to make way for another artist

2003	Premio Nonino [it]

2005	Booker Prize	The Sea

2006	Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year	The Sea

2006	British Book Awards Author of the Year, shortlist	The Sea

2007	Royal Society of Literature Fellowship

Prix Madeleine Zepter [it]

Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2009	Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society at TCD

2010	Irish Book Awards, Irish Book of the Decade, shortlist	The Sea

2011	Franz Kafka Prize

2012	Irish Book Awards, Novel category	Ancient Light

2013	Irish PEN Award

2013	Austrian State Prize for European Literature

2013	Irish Book Awards (Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award)

2014	Prince of Asturias Award for Literature

2017	RBA Prize for Crime Writing	Even the Dead

2017	American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award

2017	-

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Banville won the Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea, after having been on the short list in 1989 for The Book of Evidence.

final_sentence: Banville won the Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea, after having been on the short list in 1989 for The Book of Evidence.