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John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize. He has been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize and a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.
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 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 <i>Underworld</i>, <i>Cosmopolis</i> and <i>Mao II</i> Banville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent of Lolita * Observer * One of the most important writers now at work in English - a key thinker, in fact, in fiction * London Review of Books *
