# John Banville
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William john banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. He also had a 30-year career working in the Irish newspaper industry and served as literary editor of The Irish Times from 1988 until 1999.
Born and raised in Wexford town in the southeast of Ireland, he published his first book, a collection of short stories titled Long Lankin, in 1970.
Memories and Imagination
The writer John Banville observed, "Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don't think we remember the past, we imagine it." I have vivid memories of my early childhood (I believe they're memories, not imagination), which is why the #5YearOldSelfie hashtag challenge on social media cau…
The Fallen by Louise Brangan; The Real Story Behind the Magdalene Laundries
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I’d like to discuss some books at length. Don’t forget you can choose to listen to the audio (located above).
I read Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize , Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, One of the New York Times’s 100 Best…
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