John Banville bibliography explained

John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter.[1] He has won the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature; has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; knighted by Italy; is one of the most acclaimed writers in the English language.

As well as his novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction, Banville has published book reviews and other articles, and written introductions for the neglected short stories of women such as Elizabeth Bowen and Edna O'Brien. A partial bibliography may be found here;[2] it is particularly helpful for locating the original publisher of Banville's books and it also verifies the year of publication of each. However, discrepancies remain between that bibliography and this one on the drama adaptations and original screenplays — for example, that bibliography calls the 1994 screenplay "Seachange", while the IMDb calls a screenplay from the same year by the title "Seascape". The above bibliography does not include Banville's book reviews, nor does it include his articles for various newspapers and magazine publications. A sample of these may be found below.

Articles

Book reviews

YearReview articleWork(s) reviewedNotes
1989News: John . Banville . International tale . limited . London Review of Books . 30 March 1989 . 11 . 7 . 21. Book: Bellow, Saul . Saul Bellow . . Penguin . 1989 . 0-14-011969-8-->.
1992News: John . Banville . Playing House . . 14 May 1992 . 39 . 9. ?. Book: Frayn, Michael . Michael Frayn . A Landing on the Sun. . A Landing on the Sun.
Book: Wilson, A. N. . A. N. Wilson . Daughters of Albion. .
1992News: John . Banville . By Lava Possessed . . 9 August 1992 . ?. Book: Sontag, Susan . Susan Sontag . The Volcano Lover. . 1992. 978-0-374-28516-6. The Volcano Lover.
1992News: John . Banville . The Last Word . . 13 August 1992 . 39 . 14. ?. Book: Beckett, Samuel . Samuel Beckett . Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho. . This elicited an exchange with Everett C. Frost, which appeared in 39 (18).
1993News: John . Banville . Living in the Shadows . . 15 July 1993 . 40 . 13. ?. Book: Klíma, Ivan . Ivan Klíma . A. G. Brain . Judge on Trial. .
1994News: John . Banville . A Real Funny Guy . . 9 June 1994 . 41 . 11. ?. Book: Amis, Kinglsey . Kingsley Amis . The Russian Girl. .
1994News: John . Banville . Keeping his gin, not his chin, up . . 30 October 1994 . ?. Book: Hastings, Selina . Selina Hastings (writer) . Evelyn Waugh: A Biography. Sinclair-Stevenson. 1994.
1994News: John . Banville . War without peace . . 2 November 1994 . 41 . 18. 4–6. Book: Aksyonov, Vasily . Vasily Aksyonov . John Glad . Christopher Morris . Generations of winter. .
1996News: John . Banville . That's Life! . . 4 April 1996 . 43 . 6. ?. Book: Swift, Graham . Graham Swift . Last Orders. . Last Orders.
1996News: John . Banville . The Painful Comedy of Samuel Beckett . . 4 November 1996 . 43 . 18. ?. Book: Knowlson, James . Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett. .
Book: Cronin, Anthony . Anthony Cronin . Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist. .
Book: Gordon, Lois . The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946. .
Book: Beckett, Samuel . Samuel Beckett . . The Complete Short Prose 1929–1989. . The Complete Short Prose 1929–1989.
Book: Beckett, Samuel . Samuel Beckett . . Eleutheria. Foxrock . Eleutheria (play).
Book: Beckett, Samuel . Samuel Beckett . Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho. .
1997News: John . Banville . Revelations . . 20 February 1997 . 44 . 3. ?. Book: Munro, Alice . Alice Munro . Selected Stories. . Selected Stories.
Book: Trevor, William . William Trevor . After Rain. . 		Commentary on the short story as a literary form
1997News: John . Banville . The European Irishman . . 12 June 1997 . 44 . 10. ?. Book: Butler, Hubert . Hubert Butler . Independent Spirit. .
1999News: John . Banville . The Dawn of the Gods . . 14 January 1999 . 46 . 1. ?. Book: Calasso, Roberto . Roberto Calasso . . Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India. .
1999News: John . Banville . All Antennae . London Review of Books . 18 February 1999 . 21 . 4. 19–20. Book: Cesarani, David . David Cesarani . Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind. . November 1998. 0-434-11305-0.
1999News: John . Banville . The Friend of Promise . . 24 June 1999 . 46 . 11. ?. Book: Lewis, Jeremy . Cyril Connolly: A Life. Jonathan Cape. 0-224-03710-2. Cyril Connolly. 1997.
2000News: John . Banville . Endgame . . 20 January 2000 . 47 . 1. ?. Book: Coetzee, J. M. . J. M. Coetzee . Disgrace. . Disgrace (novel).
2000News: John . Banville . Landscape Artist . . 27 April 2000 . 47 . 7. ?. Book: Magris, Claudio . Claudio Magris . Iain Halliday . Microcosms. .
2001News: John . Banville . Summon the Gods . . 4 August 2001 . ?. Book: Calasso, Roberto . Roberto Calasso . . Literature and the Gods. Knopf. 2001. A book based on the previous year's Weidenfeld Lectures delivered at Oxford
2003News: John . Banville . By George . . 10 April 2003 . 50 . 6. ?. Book: Saddlemyer, Ann . Becoming George: The Life of Mrs. W. B. Yeats. .
2004News: John . Banville . Light but sound . . 1 May 2004 . ?. Book: Kundera, Milan . Milan Kundera . The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Faber and Faber. 1984. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. On the twentieth anniversary of its publication
2004News: John . Banville . The Missing Link . . 2 December 2004 . 51 . 19. ?. Book: Higgins, Aidan . Aidan Higgins . Langrishe, Go Down. . Langrishe, Go Down.
Book: Higgins, Aidan . Aidan Higgins . A Bestiary. .
Book: Higgins, Aidan . Aidan Higgins . Flotsam & Jetsam. . 		On the occasion of the American publication of Langrishe, Go Down
2005News: John . Banville . A Day in the Life . . 26 May 2005 . 52 . 9. ?. Book: McEwan, Ian . Ian McEwan . Saturday. . Saturday (novel). This elicited an exchange with McEwan defender John Sutherland, which appeared in 52 (11), and featured Banville's immortal line: "Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the Department of Trivia".
2006News: John . Banville . Homage to Philip Larkin . . 23 February 2006 . 53 . 3. ?. Book: Larkin, Philip . Philip Larkin . . Collected Poems (2003). . Collected Poems (Larkin).
Book: Bradford, Richard . First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin. Peter Owen/Dufour Editions. 0-7206-1147-4. 2005.
Book: Larkin, Philip . Philip Larkin . . Collected Poems (1988). . Collected Poems (Larkin).
Book: Motion, Andrew . Andrew Motion . Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life. Faber. 0-571-17065-X. 1994.
Book: Larkin, Philip . Philip Larkin . Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces, 1955–1982. .
Book: Larkin, Philip . Philip Larkin . . Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985. Faber. 0-571-17048-X. Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985. 1993.
2006News: John . Banville . Beckett on the couch . . 25 March 2006 . ?. Book: Knowlson, James. Knowlson, Elizabeth . Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett. Bloomsbury. 2006.
2006News: John . Banville . Grave thoughts from a master . . 29 April 2006 . ?. Book: Roth, Philip . Philip Roth . Everyman. Jonathan Cape. 2006. 978-0-618-73516-7. Everyman (novel).
2006News: John . Banville . Letters from the Heights . . 21 December 2006 . 53 . 20. ?. Book: Rainer Maria. Rilke. Lou Andreas-. Salomé. Rainer Maria Rilke. Lou Andreas-Salomé . . Michael Winkler . Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Correspondence. . This elicited an exchange on translating Rilke with Richard Stern and John Friedmann, which appeared in 54 (5).
2007News: John . Banville . The Family Pinfold . . 28 June 2007 . 54 . 11. 20–21. Book: Waugh, Alexander . Alexander Waugh . Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
2007News: John . Banville . Z/R . London Review of Books . 4 October 2007 . 29 . 19. 23–24. Book: Roth, Philip . Philip Roth . Exit Ghost. . October 2007. 978-0-224-08173-3. Exit Ghost.
2009News: John . Banville . Emerson: 'A Few Inches from Calamity' . . 3 December 2009 . 56 . 19. ?. Book: Richardson, Robert D. . Robert D. Richardson . First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process. University of Iowa Press. 2009. 978-1-58729-793-9.
2010News: John . Banville . Against the North Wall . . 8 April 2010 . 57 . 6. ?. Book: DeLillo, Don . Don DeLillo . Point Omega. . Point Omega.
2010News: John . Banville . Saul Bellow: Letters - review . . 20 November 2010 . ?.
2011News: John . Banville . Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe – review . . 29 July 2011 . ?. Book: Wroe, Ann . Ann Wroe . Orpheus: The Song of Life. Jonathan Cape. 2011.
2011News: John . Banville . The Most Entertaining Philosopher . . 27 October 2011 . 58 . 16. ?. Book: Robert D. Richardson . Robert D. Richardson . The Heart of William James. Harvard University Press.
2011News: John . Banville . A collection of short stories reveals Don DeLillo as a writer who arrived fully formed . . 28 October 2011. ?. Book: DeLillo, Don . Don DeLillo . The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. Scribner. 2011. The Angel Esmeralda.
2012News: John . Banville . The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett - review . . 25 January 2012 . ?. Book: Larkin, Philip . Philip Larkin. Burnett, Archie . The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin. Faber. January 2012. 978-0-571-24006-7.
2012News: John . Banville . Beckett: Storming for Beauty . . 22 March 2012 . 59 . 5. ?. Book: George Craig . Martha Dow Fehsenfeld . Dan Gunn . Lois More Overbeck . The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume II: 1941–1956. Cambridge University Press.
2012News: John . Banville . Bizarre & Wonderful Strindberg . . 21 June 2012 . 59 . 11. ?. Book: Prideaux, Sue . Sue Prideaux . Strindberg: A Life. Yale University Press.
2012News: John . Banville . Rebel, Hero, Martyr . . 25 October 2012 . 59 . 16. ?. Book: Vargas Llosa, Mario . Mario Vargas Llosa . . The Dream of the Celt. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The Dream of the Celt.
2013News: John . Banville . Study the Panther! . . 10 January 2013 . 60 . 1. ?. Book: Rilke, Rainer Maria . Rainer Maria Rilke . ((Mark Harman)) . Letters to a Young Poet. Harvard University Press. Letters to a Young Poet.
2013News: John . Banville . A Different Kafka . . 24 October 2013 . 60 . 16. ?. Book: Stach, Reiner . Reiner Stach . . Kafka: The Decisive Years. Princeton University Press.
Book: Stach, Reiner . Reiner Stach . . Kafka: The Years of Insight. Princeton University Press.
Book: Friedländer, Saul . Saul Friedländer . Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt. Yale University Press.
2017News: John . Banville . The Strange Genius of the Master . . 9 February 2012 . 64 . 2. ?. Book: Eade, Philip . Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited. Henry Holt.
2017News: John . Banville . The Master by the Arno . . March 2017 . 451. ?. Book: James, Henry . Henry James . The Portrait of a Lady. 1880–81. The Portrait of a Lady.
2017News: John . Banville . Ending at the Beginning . . 17 August 2017 . 64 . 13. ?. Book: Stach, Reiner . Reiner Stach . . Kafka: The Early Years. Princeton University Press.
2018News: John . Banville . The Impossibility of Being Oscar . . 8 March 2018 . 65 . 4. ?. Book: Frankel, Nicholas . Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years. Harvard University Press.
2019Banville, John . March 7–20, 2019 . What made the Old Boys turn? . The New York Review of Books . 66 . 4 . 35–37.
  • Book: Davenport-Hines, Richard . Richard Davenport-Hines . Enemies within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the making of modern Britain . HarperCollins .
  • Book: Philipps, Roland . A spy named Orphan: the enigma of Donald Maclean . Norton .
2019News: John . Banville . Of Terrorists, Tourists, and Robert Frost . . 26 September 2019 . 66 . 14. ?. Book: Roberto, Calasso . Roberto Calasso . ((Richard Dixon)) . The Unnamable Present. . 2019.

Other

YearReview articleSubjectNotes
2015News: John. Banville. In praise of Elizabeth Bowen: Celebrating Irish women writers. The Irish Times. 7 March 2015. Elizabeth Bowen
2016News: John. Banville. John Banville's Dublin, a city lost – and found. The Guardian. 15 October 2016. Memories; Dublin
2019News: John. Banville. A Master of Hidden Things. The New York Review of Books. 24 October 2019. 66. 16. ?. Elizabeth Bowen

Books

Novels

Short stories

For children

Non-fiction

Pseudonymous works

The following have been published as Benjamin Black:

  1. Christine Falls. London: Picador, 2006
  1. The Silver Swan. London: Picador, 2007
  1. Elegy for April. London: Picador, 2011
  1. A Death in Summer. London: Mantle, 2011
  1. Vengeance. London: Mantle, 2012
  1. Holy Orders. New York: Henry Holt, 2013
  1. Even the Dead. London: Penguin, 2016
  1. April in Spain. London: Faber & Faber, 2021 [published as John Banville]
  1. The Lock-Up. London: Faber & Faber, 2023 [published as John Banville]

Plays

Screenwriting

Introductions

YearBookNotes
2009Book: Stark, Richard (pseud. of [[Donald E. Westlake]]). The Score. University of Chicago Press. 2009. i-x. "The Parker Novels"[6]
2009Book: Stark, Richard (pseud. of [[Donald E. Westlake]]). The Jugger. University of Chicago Press. 2009. i-x. "The Parker Novels"[7]
2010Book: Stark, Richard (pseud. of [[Donald E. Westlake]]). The Mourner. University of Chicago Press. 2010. i-x. "The Parker Novels"[8]
2013Book: O'Brien, Edna. Edna O'Brien. The Love Object: Selected Stories. Faber. 2013. ix-xii.
2019Book: Bowen, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bowen. Collected Stories. Everyman. 2019. "In his introduction to this new collected edition of her stories, John Banville argues that Elizabeth Bowen, best remembered for her novels such as The Last September, was 'the supreme genius of her time' in the short form".[9]

Other

YearBookSubjectNotes
April 2012Fighting Words[10] His time working the night-shift on a newspaperA hand-printed book of short stories, limited to 150 copies and featuring contributions from various writers[11]
2014Book: McLean, Janet. Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art. Thames & Hudson. 14 October 2014. -->. Caravaggio's 1602 painting The Taking of ChristA book released to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, featuring contributions from various writers[12]

External links

Notes and References

  1. "John Banville." Dictionary of Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Hogan. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996. .
  2. Web site: Rebecca . Bibliography | John Banville . Johnbanville.eu . 2018-11-27 . 2021-12-25 . 2020-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201229222108/https://www.johnbanville.eu/materials/bibliography/bibliography . live .
  3. Web site: Tom. Williams. The Black-Eyed Blonde – Benjamin Black's new Philip Marlowe novel. 27 May 2013. Tom Williams' Blog: A blog by a biographer of Raymond Chandler and literary agent. 29 May 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130926195001/http://www.tomwilliamsonline.com/the-black-eyed-blonde-benjamin-blacks-new-philip-marlowe-novel/. 26 September 2013. dmy-all.
  4. News: Conversation in the Mountains – A Brief Q&A With John Banville. 1 July 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080803004431/http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2008/07/conversation-in.html. 3 August 2008.
  5. News: Hermione. Lee. Hermione Lee. Love and death in old Ireland: Will the film of Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September revive interest in the Irish writer's work?. The Guardian. 28 April 2000. 14 October 2019. 14 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191014231105/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/apr/28/classics. live.
  6. Book: The Score (Parker): Stark, Richard, Banville, John: 9780226771045: Amazon.com: Books . University of Chicago Press. 15 April 2009. 978-0-226-77104-5 . Stark . Richard .
  7. Book: The Jugger: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels Book 6) - Kindle edition by Stark, Richard, Banville, John. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks . Amazon . 15 June 2010. University of Chicago Press . 2021-12-25.
  8. Book: The Mourner: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels Book 4) - Kindle edition by Stark, Richard, Banville, John. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks . Amazon . 15 June 2010. University of Chicago Press . 2021-12-25 . 2021-12-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211225011136/https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A41UEOC/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3 . live .
  9. News: Collected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen review. The Guardian. 14 October 2019. 14 October 2019. 14 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191014132259/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/14/collected-stories-elizabeth-bowen-review. live.
  10. News: Fighting Words Limited Edition Book. 1 April 2012.
  11. News: Elizabeth. Day. The joy of teaching. The Guardian. 11 March 2012. 11 March 2012.
  12. News: Cathy. Dillon. Leading writers take on a different canvas. The Irish Times. 11 October 2014. 11 October 2014. 12 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141012121312/http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/leading-writers-take-on-a-different-canvas-1.1956568. live.

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