John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter."John Banville." Dictionary of Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Hogan. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996. . He has won the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature; has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; knighted by Italy; is one of the most acclaimed writers in the English language.

As well as his novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction, Banville has published book reviews and other articles, and written introductions for the neglected short stories of women such as Elizabeth Bowen and Edna O'Brien. A partial bibliography may be found here; it is particularly helpful for locating the original publisher of Banville's books and it also verifies the year of publication of each. However, discrepancies remain between that bibliography and this one on the drama adaptations and original screenplays — for example, that bibliography calls the 1994 screenplay "Seachange", while the IMDb calls a screenplay from the same year by the title "Seascape". The above bibliography does not include Banville's book reviews, nor does it include his articles for various newspapers and magazine publications. A sample of these may be found below.

Articles Book reviews YearReview articleWork(s) reviewedNotes1989199219921992This elicited an exchange with Everett C. Frost, which appeared in 39 (18).1993199419941994199619961997Commentary on the short story as a literary form1997199919991999200020002001A book based on the previous year's Weidenfeld Lectures delivered at Oxford20032004On the twentieth anniversary of its publication2004On the occasion of the American publication of Langrishe, Go Down2005This elicited an exchange with McEwan defender John Sutherland, which appeared in 52 (11), and featured Banville's immortal line: "Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the Department of Trivia".2006200620062006This elicited an exchange on translating Rilke with Richard Stern and John Friedmann, which appeared in 54 (5).2007200720092010201020112011201120122012201220122013201320172017201720182019 2019

Other YearReview articleSubjectNotes2015Elizabeth Bowen2016Memories; Dublin2019Elizabeth Bowen

Books Novels Nightspawn. London: Secker & Warburg, 1971. Birchwood. London: Secker & Warburg, 1973. Revolutions Trilogy : Doctor Copernicus. London: Secker & Warburg, 1976. Kepler. London: Secker & Warburg, 1981. The Newton Letter. London: Secker & Warburg, 1982. Mefisto. London: Secker & Warburg, 1986. Frames Trilogy The Book of Evidence. London: Secker & Warburg, 1989. Ghosts. London: Secker & Warburg, 1993. Athena. London: Secker & Warburg, 1995. The Untouchable. London: Picador, 1997. Alexander and Cass Cleave Trilogy Eclipse. London: Picador, 2000. Shroud. London: Picador, 2002. Ancient Light. London: Viking Penguin, 2012. The Sea. London: Picador, 2005. The Infinities. London: Picador, 2009. The Blue Guitar. London: Viking Penguin, 2015. Mrs Osmond. London: Penguin, 2017. The Singularities. London: Knopf, 2022.

Short stories Long Lankin. London: Secker & Warburg, 1970; revised edition 1984.

For children The Ark. Oldcastle: Gallery, 1996

Non-fiction Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City. London: Bloomsbury, 2003 Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir. Dublin: Hachette Books, 2016

Pseudonymous works Quirke series Christine Falls. London: Picador, 2006. Published as Benjamin Black. The Silver Swan. London: Picador, 2007. Published as Benjamin Black. Elegy for April. London: Mantle, 2010. Published as Benjamin Black. A Death in Summer. London: Mantle, 2011. Published as Benjamin Black. Vengeance. London: Mantle, 2012. Published as Benjamin Black. Holy Orders. London: Mantle, 2013. Published as Benjamin Black. Even the Dead. London: Viking, 2015. Published as Benjamin Black. April in Spain. London: Faber & Faber, 2021. . Published as John Banville. The Lock-up. London: Faber & Faber, 2023. . Published as John Banville. The Drowned. London: Faber & Faber, 2024. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hanover Square Press, 2024. . Published as John Banville.

Snow. London: Faber & Faber, 2020. Published as John Banville. The Secret Guests. London: Penguin, 2020. Published as B. W. Black.

Other titles published as by Benjamin Black, or written for a similar readership: The Lemur. London: Picador, 2008 (previously serialised in The New York Times). Published as Benjamin Black. The Black-Eyed Blonde. New York: Henry Holt, 2014 (a Philip Marlowe novel). Published as Benjamin Black. Prague Nights. London: Penguin, 2017 (published in the U.S. as Wolf on a String). Published as Benjamin Black. Venetian Vespers. Knopf. October 2025. Published as John Banville.

Plays The Broken Jug. Oldcastle: Gallery, 1995 (after Heinrich von Kleist's play of that name) Seachange. Unpublished (performed 1994 in the Focus Theatre, Dublin) Dublin 1742. Unpublished (performed 2002 in The Ark, Dublin; a play for those between the ages of nine and fourteen) God's Gift: A Version of Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist. Oldcastle: Gallery, 2000 Love in the Wars. Oldcastle: Gallery, 2005 (adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea) Todtnauberg. Radio play aired by the BBC in January 2006; later reissued as Conversation in the Mountains in 2008. about the conversations between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger (and his relationship with Hannah Arendt) at Todtnauberg in the Black Forest in Germany.

Screenwriting 1983 or 1984?: Reflections (adaptation of The Newton Letter for Court House Films/Channel Four 1983. 90 mins) 1994: Seascape 1999: The Last September (adaptation of the Elizabeth Bowen novel for Trimark Pictures) 2011: Albert Nobbs 2013: The Sea

Introductions

YearBookNotes2009"The Parker Novels"2009"The Parker Novels"2010"The Parker Novels"20132019"In his introduction to this new collected edition of her stories, John Banville argues that Elizabeth Bowen, best remembered for her novels such as The Last September, was 'the supreme genius of her time' in the short form".

Other YearBookSubjectNotes April 2012 Fighting Words His time working the night-shift on a newspaper A hand-printed book of short stories, limited to 150 copies and featuring contributions from various writers2014Caravaggio's 1602 painting The Taking of ChristA book released to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, featuring contributions from various writers

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References

External links John Banville's BBC radio plays