John Banville

Edition 2023

(Wexford, Ireland, 1945) He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He has published, among other novels, Eclipse (2002), Shroud (2005), The Infinites (2010) (all three published by Anagrama), The Book of Evidence (Alfaguara, 2014), part of the Freddie Montgomery Trilogy (Alfaguara, 2020) along with Ghosts y Athena, and was a runner-up for the Booker Prize, awarded in 2005 for his novel The Sea, which also won the Irish Book Award for best novel of the year. Other highlights include The Untouchable (2015), the Cleave Trilogy, The Blue Guitar (2016), Mrs Osmond (2018) and Scientific Tetralogy (2022), which brings together in a single volume the novels Copernicus (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), Kepler, (The Guardian Fiction Prize), The Newton Letter and Mefisto. His novels have been published by Alfaguara under the pen name Benjamin Black, which he uses in his Spanish editions of crime novels, including The Lemur (2009), the series starring Dr. Quirke, The Black-eyed Blonde (2014) and Prague Nights (2019). In 2014 he was awarded the Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras Award. The Singularities (2023) is his latest novel and is considered one of the best of his extensive oeuvre.