Banville, John
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of over nineteen novels, six plays and several screen plays. He also writes under the name Benjamin Black. He has received numerous awards including the Lannan Literary Award for fiction, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The Sea won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Banville lives in Dublin.