John Banville is an esteemed novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. Banville has won numerous awards including the International Nonino Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Franz Kafka Prize. During his storied career, he’s published numerous books to great acclaim, including Nightspawn, The Sea, The Book of Evidence, and The Revolutions Trilogy. Despite comparisons to Marcel Proust and Vladimir Nabokov, Banville maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry James are the two foundational influences on his ongoing work.