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Irish Author John Banville at Free Library of Philadelphia
Novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and journalist, John Banville, will speak in Montgomery Auditorium of Central Library, 19th and Vine Streets, on Thursday, March 22nd at 8 p.m.
Individual tickets are $12; student tickets are $8; and simulcast tickets are $6. To order tickets call UpStages at (215) 569-9700.
Born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945, Banville was educated at Christian Brother's schools and St. Peter's College in Wexford. He has worked in journalism since 1969 and was literary editor of the Irish Times since 1969.
He is the author of 12 highly regarded novels. His 1989 Book of Evidence was short-listed for the Booker Prize and was awarded the first Guinness Peat Aviation Award. His 1993 novel Ghosts was short-listed for the Whitbread Fiction Prize in 1993.
Banville's twelth and latest novel, Eclipse, is about a successful stage actor, Alexander Cleave, who has suddenly"corpsed" in mid-performance.
As with all his novels, the style is poetic and magnetic and unparalleled in probing into his characters interior life. As the novel progresses, there is an escalating mood of ominousness. The suspense is almost palpable.
Among the awards Banville has won are: The Allied Irish Banks Fiction Prize, the American-Irish Foundation Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize.
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