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William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter.〔"John Banville." Dictionary of Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Hogan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. ISBN 0-313-29172-1.〕 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." He has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov." Banville has received numerous awards in his career. His novel ''The Book of Evidence'' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award in 1989. His fourteenth novel, ''The Sea'', won the Booker Prize in 2005. In 2011, Banville was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, while 2013 brought both the Irish PEN Award and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. In 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award in Letters.〔http://www.actualidadliteratura.com/2014/10/25/john-banville-premio-principe-de-asturias-de-las-letras/〕 He is considered a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Banville's stated ambition is to give his prose "the kind of denseness and thickness that poetry has". He has published a number of crime novels as Benjamin Black, most featuring Quirke, an Irish pathologist based in Dublin. ==Biography== William John Banville was born to Agnes (née Doran) and Martin Banville, a garage clerk, in Wexford, Ireland. He is the youngest of three siblings; his older brother Vincent is also a novelist and has written under the name Vincent Lawrence as well as his own. His sister Anne Veronica "Vonnie" Banville-Evans has written both a children's novel and a memoir of growing up in Wexford. Banville was educated at CBS Primary, Wexford, a Christian Brothers school, and at St Peter's College, Wexford. Despite having intended to be a painter and an architect, he did not attend university. Banville has described this as "A great mistake. I should have gone. I regret not taking that four years of getting drunk and falling in love. But I wanted to get away from my family. I wanted to be free." Alternately he has stated that college would have had little benefit for him: "I don't think I would have learned much more, and I don't think I would have had the nerve to tackle some of the things I tackled as a young writer if I had been to university — I would have been beaten into submission by my lecturers."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 )〕 After school he worked as a clerk at Aer Lingus, which allowed him to travel at deeply discounted rates. He took advantage of this to travel in Greece and Italy. He lived in the United States during 1968 and 1969. On his return to Ireland, he became a sub-editor at ''The Irish Press'', rising eventually to the position of chief sub-editor. Since 1990, Banville has been a regular contributor to ''The New York Review of Books.'' After ''The Irish Press'' collapsed in 1995, he became a sub-editor at ''The Irish Times''. He was appointed literary editor in 1998. ''The Irish Times'', too, suffered severe financial problems, and Banville was offered the choice of taking a redundancy package or working as a features department sub-editor. He left. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Banville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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