John Kelly meets John Banville
John Banville is internationally recognised as one of our very finest writers. His first novel, Nightspawn, was published in 1971 and many landmark novels followed including Birchwood, Kepler, The Book of Evidence and of course, The Sea – winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2005. Seen has a key figure in European literature, it perhaps came as a surpise when he then began publishing a series of crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. His most recent however, Snow is the first of these novels to appear under his own name – a classic whodunnit set in his home ground of county Wexford.