The Irish Literary Times

Over the past decade, John Banville has frankly apprenticed himself to the masters, including Henry James and Raymond Chandler. With his new novel, he’s come full circle.

In this article the paper says novels by Sally Rooney and Colm Tóibín will transport you here

The University Press of Mississippi has just published Conversations with John Banville, a collection of interviews with that great Irish author. I interviewed Banville, eons ago, with the timeless time of memory, when I had weekly radio interview show at the Albany (NY) public radio station, WAMC. That interview is included with the title I

Author says he was phoned by Swedish Academy number shortly before Thursday’s announcement

The author caused a stir in 2010 in a piece about the state of Irish fiction. Now he’s written a ‘humble’ new book modelled on Terminator 2 and Aliens

 takes the acclaimed novelist back to the Dublin of his youth, recalling people and places that still live in his memory.

Considered one of Ireland’s greatest writers, he has penned what he says is a feminist sequel to Henry James’ novel The Portrait of A Lady.

Henry James’ best-known novel, The Portrait of a Lady comes back to life in John Banville’s sequel

I now know male writers do not have to choose between family and work. Both feed each other

'I despise this woke movement,' the 2005 Booker winner said

An online conversation between John Banville, one of Ireland's greatest living writers and Michael Cronin, 1776 Professor of French at Trinity College Dublin, and Director of the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation.

Their discussion centres on what it's like as an author to see translations of one's own work appearing in languages we cannot necessarily read ourselves.

Writer is sanguine about the incident, saying : ‘for 40 minutes I was a Nobel Prize winner’

Had he ever allowed himself to be the equal of what was required by the excess of literary talent that had been bestowed on him? Had he lived up to his own austere demands, which he set out so dogmatically, despite the lightness of expression, in the preface to Dorian Gray and “The Decay of Lying”? Certainly the plays are great, in their way—Salomé in particular shows him for the subversive artist he could have been, had he had the nerve for it—but somehow they are not quite enough, not quite the fulfilment of his genius. He had, throughout his life, talked away too much of his talent; as one observer put it, “He wasted himself in words.”

This cunning sequel to The Portrait of a Lady is a remarkable novel in its own right

John Boyne: He’s a supremely talented writer, but Atwood and Banville have a greater claim

The author of the comic masterpiece At Swim-Two-Birds would have laughed at the notion of being anybody’s hero

Although regarded as a quintessentially European writer, his imagination has occasionally crossed the Atlantic. Exile of one kind or another is a favoured theme