John Banville

John Banville is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and book reviewer. He worked in journalism for many years, and was literary editor at The Irish Times from 1988 to 2000. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, New Statesman and other journals. His latest novel is Venetian Vespers. 

His works include The Book of Evidence, The Sea, and The Infinities. Among the awards he has received are the Man Booker Prize, the Austrian State Prize for Literature, the Kafka Prize, the Irish PEN Award and the Prince of Asturias Award. He has written a number of crime novels, including Snow, and, most recently, The Drowned. He was born in Wexford, and lives in Dublin. 

John’s attendance at this year’s festival is supported by the Irish Writers Centre