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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...
Literary figures
Steve Carella
Gender: Male
A central figure in Ed McBain’s (pseudonym for Evan Hunter) books about the 87th police district in Isola is Stephen ‘Steve’ Carella. He is of Italian extraction, and in one of the early books he marries the beautiful and deaf-mute Theodora ‘Teddy’ Franklin, with whom he has twin sons. Detective Carella is tall, dark and muscular without being athletic; he gives an impression of strength and energ...