Novelist John Banville

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John Banville

Living place: Ireland

Birthday: 8-12-1945 (79 years old)

Global rank: #88803

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Who is Novelist John Banville?
Irish novelist who has won numerous awards and has been considered "one of the most imaginative literary novelists written in the English language" due to his forensic prose style and dark humour.
He wrote crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Black.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He wanted to be a young adult painter and architect and worked as a salesman at Aer Lingus.

Family life info

He married textile artist Janet Dunham, and they had two sons before separating.

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Frank O'Connor is also a famous Irish author.

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When was Novelist John Banville born?
John Banville birthday 8-12-1945 (at the age of 79).
Where is Novelist John Banville's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
John Banville was born in . is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rooster. John Banville's global rank is 88803 and whose rank is 1102 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1945 and 8-12

Events in the world in the birth year of John Banville

  • Yalta Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) plans final defeat of Germany (Feb).
  • Hitler commits suicide (April 30); Germany surrenders (May 7); May 8 is declared V-E Day. Background: World War II
  • San Francisco Conference establishes the United Nations (April–June).
  • Potsdam Conference (Truman, Churchill, Stalin) establishes basis of German reconstruction (July–Aug.).
  • US drops atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9). Background: nuclear weapons
  • Japan signs official surrender on V-J Day (Sept. 2).

Birthday John Banville (8-12) in history

  • Day 8-12 year 1854: Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
  • Day 8-12 year 1886: The American Federation of Labor was founded at a convention of union leaders in Columbus, Ohio.
  • Day 8-12 year 1941: Congress declared war on Japan and the U.S. entered World War II.
  • Day 8-12 year 1949: Communist attacks forced the Chinese Nationalist government to flee to the island of Formosa (Taiwan).
  • Day 8-12 year 1978: Former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir died.
  • Day 8-12 year 1980: John Lennon, former member of the Beatles, was shot and killed in New York City by a deranged fan.
  • Day 8-12 year 1987: President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.
  • Day 8-12 year 1993: President Bill Clinton signed The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law.
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