John Banville
Ireland
Elegy for April
(2010)


John Banville was born in Wexford in 1945. His novels include Birchwood, The Book of Evidence, Shroud and The Infinities. In 2005 he was awarded the Man Booker Prize for The Sea. He writes crime novels under the pen-name Benjamin Black, the latest of which is Elegy for April. He reviews regularly for The Irish Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Guardian.

 

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