Question: What is the nationality of the author who wrote the novels on which the British-Irish crime drama television series Quirke is based?
Sentence (from "John Banville"): Recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators, Banville is considered to be "one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today."
Relevant evidence: No