John Banville is a winner of the "Guardian" Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the GPA Book Award, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books are Nightspawn, Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976), Kepler (which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1981), The Newton Letter (which was filmed for Channel 4), Mefisto, The Book of Evidence (shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize and winner of the 1998 Guinness Peat Aviation Award), Ghosts, Athena, The Untouchable, Eclipse and Shroud. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. The Sea won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2005. John Banville lives in Dublin.
Banville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose
lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent
of Lolita.
*Observer*
The Book of Evidence is a major work of fiction in which every
suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within.
Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim
gift of seeing people’s souls.
*Don DeLillo, author of Underworld, Cosmopolis and
Mao II*
One of the most important writers now at work in English – a key
thinker, in fact, in fiction.
*London Review of Books*
Remarkable. . . If all crime novels were like this one, there would
no longer be the need for a genre.
*Ruth Rendell, author of the Inspector Wexford series*
Freddie Montgomery is a schizophrenic 38-year-old ex-scientist haunting dingy pubs who, nonetheless, ponders life and his illness via this superb novelized murder trial ``confession.'' After study in America, Freddie returns to Ireland to find that his disowning mother has sold what he believes is part of his inheritance from his late father, some paintings that include an old Dutch master of a woman he thinks regards him with caring, benevolent authority. As he steals it, he murders a maid who catches him in the act. His lawyer advises him to plead manslaughter to quash evidence. Instead, the brooding, contradictory Freddie writes the ``book of evidence'' that we read. How much of it is true, how much sick fancy? Freddie makes us think, too.-- Kenneth Mintz, formerly with Bayonne P.L., N.J.
Banville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose
lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent
of Lolita. * Observer *
The Book of Evidence is a major work of fiction in which
every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam
within. Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has
a grim gift of seeing people's souls. -- Don DeLillo, author of
Underworld, Cosmopolis and Mao II
One of the most important writers now at work in English - a key
thinker, in fact, in fiction. * London Review of Books *
Remarkable. . . If all crime novels were like this one, there would
no longer be the need for a genre. -- Ruth Rendell, author of the
Inspector Wexford series
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