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Banville, John
John Banville is one of Ireland’s best known and most prize-winning authors. He was awarded the Booker Prize in 2005, the Kafka Prize in 2007 and the prestigious Austrian state prize for European literature in 2014. He was elected to the British Royal Society of Literature in 2007 and the Italian Ordine della Stella d’Italia in 2017. As an author, he is regarded as an heir to Marcel Proust and Vla...
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Crispin, Edmund
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of detective stories born in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, London, and St. John’s College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages in 1943. While in Oxford he befriended Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, and he tra...