John Banville

John Banville (født 8. december 1945) er en irsk forfatter. Han skriver kriminalromaner under pseudonymet Benjamin Black.

Karriere 
John Banville blev født i 1945 i Wexford i Irland og bor nu i Dublin. Han har skrevet femten romaner inklusive Havet, som vandt Man Booker-prisen i 2005. Han har herudover vundet flere litterære priser, senest den fornemme Franz Kafka-pris i 2011. Han har også skrevet en række skuespil og de senere år flere krimier under pseudonymet Benjamin Black. Han er kendt for sin tekniske prosa-stil og anses for en af vor tids største stilister i det engelske sprog. Kendetegnende er også den sorte humor og det skarpe vid. Hans erklærede ambition er at give sin prosa ”den slags tæthed og fyldighed, som poesi har. … at forsøge at blande prosa og poesi til en ny form.”

Priser

Bibliografi

Novellesamlinger 
 Long Lankin (1970; revised ed.1984)

Romaner 
 Nightspawn (1971)
 Birchwood (1973)
 The Revolutions Trilogy :
 Doctor Copernicus: A Novel (1976)
 Kepler, a Novel (1981)
 The Newton Letter: An Interlude (1982) (da. Newtons brev, 1993)
 Mefisto (1986)
 The Book of Evidence (1989) (da. Bevisernes bog, 1991)
 Ghosts (1993 novel)|Ghosts (1993)
 Athena: A Novel (1995)
 The Ark (1996) (only 260 copies published)
 The Untouchable (novel)|The Untouchable (1997) (da. Den urørlige, 1997)
 Eclipse (Banville novel)|Eclipse (2000)
 Shroud (novel)|Shroud (2002)
 Prague Pictures: Portrait Of A City (2003)
 The Sea (novel)|The Sea (2005) (da. Havet, 2011)
 The Infinities (2009)
 Ancient light (2012)
 The Blue Guitar (2015)

Skuespil 
 The Broken Jug: After Heinrich von Kleist (1994)
 Seachange (performed 1994 in the Focus Theatre, Dublin; unpublished)
 Dublin 1742 (performed 2002 in The Ark, Dublin; a play for 9–14 year olds; unpublished)
 God's Gift: A Version of Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist (2000)
 Love In The Wars (adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea, 2005)
 Conversation In The Mountains (radio play, forthcoming 2008)

Kriminalromaner som "Benjamin Black" 
 Christine Falls (2006) (da. Christine Falls, 2009)
 The Silver Swan (2007) (da. Silver Swan, 2011)
 The Lemur (2008, previously serialised in The New York Times)
 Elegy for April (2010)
 A Death In Summer (2011)

Boganmeldelser 
 "The Family Pinfold" The New York Review of Books 54/11 (28 June 2007) : 20–21 [reviews Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons : the Autobiography of a Family]
 "Trump Cards" Bookforum (Dec/Jan 2010) : John Banville on The Original of Laura, Nabokov's final, unfinished novel.

Manuskriptforfatter

Litteratur 
 John Banville by John Kenny; Irish Academic Press (2009); 
 John Banville, a critical study by Joseph McMinn; Gill and MacMillan; 
 The Supreme Fictions of John Banville by Joseph McMinn; (October 1999); Manchester University Press; 
 John Banville: A Critical Introduction by Rüdiger Imhoff (October 1998) Irish American Book Co; 
 John Banville: Exploring Fictions by Derek Hand; (June 2002); Liffey Press; 
 Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies: Special Issue John Banville Edited by Derek Hand; (June 2006)
 Irish Writers on Writing featuring John Banville. Edited by Eavan Boland (Trinity University (Texas)#Trinity_University Press|Trinity University Press, 2007).

Eksterne henvisninger 

 
 Aosdána biographical note 
 
 "As clear as mirror glass. John Banville in interview" with Three Monkeys Online Magazine
 2011 radio interview at The Bat Segundo Show
 John Banville at Ricorso Irish Writers Database
 John Banville interview with the Village Voice about Benjamin Black 
 Chapter 1 of The Sinking City 
 Banville author page and article archive from The New York Review of Books
 "Banville scored an own goal even before our crime fiction spat" (9 August 2009)—Article by Ruth Dudley Edwards about Banville
 John Banville's BBC radio plays
 Benjamin Black's Official Website
 Benjamin Black's Books on Macmillan.com

Romanforfattere fra Irland
Krimiforfattere