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John Banville (Wexford, Irlanda, 8 de diciembre de 1945) es un novelista irlandés, ganador del Premio Booker en 2005. Las obras que publica del género de novela negra las firma bajo el pseudónimo de Benjamin Black. Biografía Desde muy joven —12 años— supo que quería ser escritor. Estudió en una escuela de los Hermanos Cristianos y en el colegio católico de San Pedro de Wexford.[1]​ En lugar de ingresar en la universidad, prefirió comenzar a trabajar y lo hizo en la compañía aérea Aer Lingus, que le permitía viajar por el mundo. Más tarde diría irónicamente de esta decisión: "Un gran error. Debería haber ido [a la universidad]. Lamento no haber tomado esos cuatro años de emborracharse y enamorarse. Pero quería irme de mi familia. Quería ser libre".[2]​ Cuando regresó a Irlanda después de haber vivido en Estados Unidos en 1968 y 1969, se convirtió en periodista y entró a trabajar en el diario The Irish Press, donde llegó a ser subeditor jefe. Cuando este periódico desapareció en 1995, pasó al The Irish Times. Es colaborador habitual de The New York Review of Books. Publicó su primer libro en 1970, una recopilación de relatos titulada Long Lankin, a la que seguiría una serie de novelas, la primera de ellas Nightspawn que salió al año siguiente. Después vinieron Birchwood (1973), la llamada Trilogía de las revoluciones —compuesta por Copérnico (1976), Kepler (1981) y La carta de Newton (1982)— y cerca de una docena de novelas más, entre las que destacan El libro de las pruebas (1989), finalista del Premio Booker) y El mar (2005), que ganó el preciado galardón. Banville es conocido por el estilo preciso de su prosa. Su ingenio y su humor negro muestran la influencia de Nabokov. En 2006 aparece el primer libro de Benjamin Black: El secreto de Christine, a la que le han seguido otras muchas novelas negras. Sobre su desdoblamiento como escritor, ha dicho: "El arte es una cosa extraña. Bajo el sombrero de Banville puedo escribir 200 palabras al día. Un día decidí que podía convertirme en otro y bajo ese segundo sombrero, en esa segunda piel, puedo irme a comer tras haber escrito un millar de palabras, tal vez 2.000, y disfrutar con ello. Es increíble descubrir cómo otro tipo puede vivir tu vida y usar tus manos y deleitarse con eso. Escribir es un trabajo peculiar... Escribir es como respirar. Lo hago por necesidad. Por mi propia boca, y ahora también por la de Black".[3]​ Obras Novelas como John Banville Novelas como Benjamin Black[5]​ Premios y honores 1976 - Premio James Tait Black Memorial por Copérnico 1981 - Premio Guardian ficción por Kepler Premio Allied Irish Bank Fiction por Kepler Premio American-Irish Foundation por Birchwood 1989 - Premio Guinness Peat Aviation por El libro de las pruebas Finalista del Premio Booker 1989 por El libro de las pruebas 2003 - Premio Nonino a toda su obra (Italia) 2005 - Premio Booker por El mar 2006 - Premio Irish Book a la mejor novela del año por El mar 2007 - Miembro de número de la Royal Society of Literature Premio Madeleine Zepter 2009 - Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society 2011 - Premio Franz Kafka 2013 - Premio Leteo 2013 - Premio Austriaco de Literatura Europea 2014 - Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras[6]​ 2017 - Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca Referencias Enlaces externos «En la selva oscura de la existencia», artículo de Claudio Magris en el suplemento cultural Babelia de El País, 08.03.2003; acceso 23.10.2011 John Banville en Canal-L, de Barcelona: "Deberíamos volver a ser paganos" Imposturas, de John Banville, reseña de Nicolás Cabral, Letras Libres, mayo de 2005; acceso 23.10.2011. Descubre los libros populares de Benjamin Black. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Benjamin Black

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  • Black in Time sinopsis y comentarios

    Black in Time

    Alison Hammond & E. L. Norry

    Hiya! Alison Hammond here! I love getting to know all about different people and I'll tell you a secret . . . sometimes people we don't know much about are the most interesting of ...

  • Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society sinopsis y comentarios

    Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society

    William Oldfield & Victoria Bruce

    The “fascinating…greatgrandson’s account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the US postal inspector who brought to justice the deadly Black Hand is “unputdownable” (Library Journal, sta...

  • Dear Benjamin Banneker sinopsis y comentarios

    Dear Benjamin Banneker

    Andrea Davis Pinkney

    Throughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who had signed the Declaration of Indepen...

  • Gold Diggers sinopsis y comentarios

    Gold Diggers

    Sanjena Sathian

    SOON TO BE A MINDY KALING TV SERIES A Book of the Month pick by CNN, Bustle, PopSugar, Entertainment Weekly and Vox One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 Long...

  • The Anatomy School sinopsis y comentarios

    The Anatomy School

    Bernard MacLaverty

    This is the story of the growing up of Martin Brennan, a troubled boy in troubled times, a boy who knows all the questions but none of the answers. This is Belfast in the late sixt...

  • Invisible Generals sinopsis y comentarios

    Invisible Generals

    Doug Melville

    The amazing true story of America’s first Black generals, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airme...

  • Rising from the Rails sinopsis y comentarios

    Rising from the Rails

    Larry Tye

    "A valuable window into a longunderreported dimension of African American history."NewsdayAn engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the st...

  • Dombey and Son sinopsis y comentarios

    Dombey and Son

    Charles Dickens & Andrew Sanders

    'There's no writing against such power as this one has no chance' William Makepeace ThackerayA compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, Dombey and Son explores t...

  • The City in Darkness sinopsis y comentarios

    The City in Darkness

    Michael Russell

    An evocative, literary crime thriller set in Dublin and Spain just before the outbreak of WWII.Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective ...

  • Skin Deep sinopsis y comentarios

    Skin Deep

    Liz Nugent

    'Pure genius. Absolutely brilliant' Shari Lapena'A twisted thriller, reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith' Ian Rankin IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year Winner 2018 From the No 1 bes...

  • Natives sinopsis y comentarios

    Natives

    Akala

    RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'Thi...

  • Wahala sinopsis y comentarios

    Wahala

    Nikki May

    SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC TV SERIESWINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT NEWCOMER AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD '"WAHALA" means trouble and there's plenty of ...

  • OMG Posters sinopsis y comentarios

    OMG Posters

    Mitch Putnam

    THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION OF GIG POSTERS FROM TODAY’S TOP ROCK AND INDIE BANDSLaunched in 2007, OMGPosters.com has become one of the world’s favorite art blogs, showcasing thousands ...

  • Kingpin sinopsis y comentarios

    Kingpin

    Richard Stratton

    This fastpaced sequel to Smuggler's Blues is a harrowing and at times comical journey through the criminal justice system at the height of America's War on Plants.Captured in the l...

  • There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories sinopsis y comentarios

    There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

    Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

    In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, illfated holiday romances, office try...

  • La sustancia del mal sinopsis y comentarios

    La sustancia del mal

    Luca D'Andrea

    El thriller literario del año.No devorarás este libro: este libro te devorará a ti.En 1985, durante una terrible tormenta, tres jóvenes son brutalmente asesinados en el Bletterbach...

  • That Reminds Me sinopsis y comentarios

    That Reminds Me

    Derek Owusu

    WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020'A singular achievement.'Michael Donkor, Guardian'Heartbreaking, important and original.' Christie Watson, author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDN...

  • Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates sinopsis y comentarios

    Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

    Eric Jay Dolin

    With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and highseas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is “rumbustious enough for the adventurehungry” (Peter Lewis, San Franc...

  • The Flying Circus sinopsis y comentarios

    The Flying Circus

    Susan Crandall

    The awardwinning, national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard sends an unlikely trio on an exhilarating adventure high above the American Midwest of the 1920s in a ...

  • Bryant and May Off the Rails (Bryant and May 8) sinopsis y comentarios

    Bryant and May Off the Rails (Bryant and May 8)

    Christopher Fowler

    They've been given just one week to find a killer they'd caught once before . . . Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man ca...

  • Black Teacher sinopsis y comentarios

    Black Teacher

    Beryl Gilroy

    The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in postwar London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away sh...

  • Uncommon Wealth sinopsis y comentarios

    Uncommon Wealth

    Kojo Koram

    Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingLonglisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingA Guardian Book of the Year'Brilliantly arrange...

  • Prince of Darkness sinopsis y comentarios

    Prince of Darkness

    Shane White

    In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a wellknown figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingl...

  • Star Trek: Voyager: The Black Shore sinopsis y comentarios

    Star Trek: Voyager: The Black Shore

    Greg Cox

    After weeks of lonely journeys through a desolate region fo the Delta Quadrant, the crew of Voyager is badly in need of shore leave, so the planet Ryolanov seems just what the doct...

  • Literature and Evil sinopsis y comentarios

    Literature and Evil

    Georges Bataille & Alastair Hamilton

    'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil ...

  • All is Song sinopsis y comentarios

    All is Song

    Samantha Harvey

    Leonard is alone and rootless, returning to London after his father's death. He moves in with his distant brother William and his family, hoping to renew their friendship but learn...

  • Whistling Past the Graveyard sinopsis y comentarios

    Whistling Past the Graveyard

    Susan Crandall

    From an awardwinning author comes a wise and tender comingofage story about a nineyearold girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering l...

  • The 39 Clues Book 5: The Black Circle sinopsis y comentarios

    The 39 Clues Book 5: The Black Circle

    Patrick Carman

    The highly anticipated Book Five of the #1 bestselling The 39 Clues series.A strange telegram lures fourteenyearold Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, deep into Russia and aw...

  • Mantissa sinopsis y comentarios

    Mantissa

    John Fowles

    Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn't remember his wife, or his children's names. An impossibly shapely...

  • The Fight for Equal Opportunity: Blacks in America sinopsis y comentarios

    The Fight for Equal Opportunity: Blacks in America

    Willie Jackson

    The book is a history of AfricanAmerican leadership in modern times, with special focus on two magnetic and essential figures in the struggle for racial equality: General Benjamin ...

  • Black Bears of Independence: Benjamin sinopsis y comentarios

    Black Bears of Independence: Benjamin

    K R Hall

    Trauma and DiscoverySabrina Bryant stopped shifting when she was only ten. A traumatic incident that she can't remember and is helpless to do anything to change so she can shift. A...

  • The Suicide Club sinopsis y comentarios

    The Suicide Club

    Rhys Thomas

    Craig BartlettTaylor was always trying to kill himself, but when he took an overdose at the back of Mrs Kenna's classroom, Richie thought he'd finally succeeded: it was a reallife ...

  • El secreto de Christine (Quirke 1) sinopsis y comentarios

    El secreto de Christine (Quirke 1)

    Benjamin Black

    La primera novela de John Banville como Benjamin Black.«Banville puede haber intercambiado la novela literaria por el crimen, pero no ha dejado de escribir con elegancia y belleza,...

  • Part of a Story That Started Before Me sinopsis y comentarios

    Part of a Story That Started Before Me

    George the Poet

    "This is an anthology to contemplate, revisit and relish" LoveReading4Kids'It's time we told our story too. The melanin speaks for itself.' George the PoetPart of a Story That St...

  • The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah sinopsis y comentarios

    The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah

    Benjamin Zephaniah

    BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his ...

  • America's-Black-Founding-Fathers: The American Faith Of Benjamin Franklin sinopsis y comentarios

    America's-Black-Founding-Fathers: The American Faith Of Benjamin Franklin

    Lavona Broderson

    For anyone interested in Ben Franklin's thoughts on Christianity, Bill Fortenberry has assembled most, if not all of Franklin's thoughts on the subject, with detailed analy...

  • Such Good Friends sinopsis y comentarios

    Such Good Friends

    Stephen Greco

    “Fans of Capote and the era of Camelot should be delighted.”  Shana Abé, New York Times bestselling author of The Second Mrs. Astor A mustread for fans of Truman Capote and Ja...

  • April in Spain sinopsis y comentarios

    April in Spain

    John Banville

    'Deeply atmospheric.'MICK HERRON'A joy to read.'SUNDAY TIMES'The ultimate pageturner.'IRISH INDEPENDENTThe sumptuous, propulsive, sunkissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from ...

  • Surge sinopsis y comentarios

    Surge

    Jay Bernard

    Winner of the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year AwardJay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a hou...

  • Benjamin Franklin in London sinopsis y comentarios

    Benjamin Franklin in London

    George Goodwin

    'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian'Fantastic' Dan SnowFor the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made hi...

  • An Apology for Idlers sinopsis y comentarios

    An Apology for Idlers

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and sem...

  • Black England sinopsis y comentarios

    Black England

    Gretchen Gerzina

    'The classic book on Black people in Georgian London' DAVID OLUSOGA'Deeply researched, lucidly written and utterly fascinating . . . If you ever thought Black British history start...

  • Business Adventures sinopsis y comentarios

    Business Adventures

    John Brooks

    'The best business book I've ever read.' Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal'The Michael Lewis of his day.' New York TimesWhat do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as ...

  • Black History Matters sinopsis y comentarios

    Black History Matters

    Robin Walker

    An important and hardhitting chronicle of Black history, written by a celebrated Black historian. Winner of the 2020 School & Library Association prize for readers aged 1316 an...

  • Laura sinopsis y comentarios

    Laura

    Vera Caspary

    In the doorway of an elegant New York apartment, blood seeps over silk negligee, over polished wood floors and plush carpet: a beautiful young woman lies dead, her face disfigured ...

  • The City Underground sinopsis y comentarios

    The City Underground

    Michael Russell

    Ireland 1941. A German spy escapes from Mountjoy Prison, clearly with inside help. Yet no one wants to catch him. When the head of Garda Special Branch sends Inspector Stefan Gille...

  • Snow sinopsis y comentarios

    Snow

    John Banville

    THE LOCKUP A THRILLING NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MYSTERY IS AVAILABLE NOW FOR PREORDER'Outstanding.' Irish Independent'Exquisite.' Daily Mail'Hypnotic.' Financial Times'This is cr...

  • Tod im Sommer sinopsis y comentarios

    Tod im Sommer

    Benjamin Black

    Ein atmosphärisch dichter Krimi aus dem Dublin der 50erJahreDer sagenhaft reiche Zeitungsverleger Richard Jewell wird tot mit einer Schrotflinte in seinen blutigen Händen am Schrei...

  • Gone sinopsis y comentarios

    Gone

    Helena Echlin

    Dutiful and studious, Elizabeth has never been the rebel in her family. Now, in an attempt to bury her old self, she has moved to the deserts of the American Southwest to live in a...

  • Odd One Out sinopsis y comentarios

    Odd One Out

    Nic Stone

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin comes a story of finding your place in the world. When it comes to love, attraction and relationships, n...