id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5839 John Banville - Wikipedia .html text/html 8894 1064 78 Banville has won the 1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 2005 Booker Prize, the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize, the 2013 Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature.[4] Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, Italy made him a Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d'Italia (essentially a knighthood) in 2017.[5] He is a former member of Aosdána, having voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.[6] He considers crime writing, in his own words, as being "cheap fiction".[21] In a July 2008 interview with Juan José Delaney in the Argentine newspaper La Nación, Banville was asked if his books had been translated into Irish. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5839.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5839.txt