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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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Singer Batts
Gender: Male
He is an extremely reluctant amateur detective of early middle-age, the owner of a little private hotel in Preston, Ohio, and has an energetic hotel manager in Joe Spinder. This means that Singer Batts decandicate himself to his hobby – he is a passionate bibliophile – and to studying Shakespeare. He is – according to author Thomas B. Dewey – tall and extremely thin because he doesn’t like eating...