The Man Booker Prize 2005
A bumper year, a face-off between old rivals, and a decision settled by the chair of judges’ casting vote. After much wrangling, the tide swept John Banville’s The Sea to victory.
John Banville
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland. His novel The Sea won the 2005 Booker Prize.
Banville is the author of more than fifteen novels, a short story collection, and several mysteries written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black.
His novel Ancient Light won the Irish Book Award. In addition to winning The Man Booker Prize 2005, he was also shortlisted for his entire body of work, for The Man Booker International Prize 2007.
In 2011, Banville won the Franz Kafka Prize. He lives in Dublin.
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Winner The Booker Prize 2005
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A man attempts to escape a recent loss while confronting a trauma from a long lost summer, in John Banville’s haunting and evocative novel.
Other nominated books
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