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Ireland’s Banville wins Asturias prize for literature
The winner for this year’s Prince of Asturias Award for literature has gone to Irish novelist John Banville.
The announcement was made from the northern Spanish city of Oviedo on Wednesday.
Banville is considered by critics as a master stylist of English.
Asturias Jury President José Manuel Blecua Perdices said:
”John Banville’s prose opens us up to dazzling lyrical spaces through cultural references where classic myths are revitalised and beauty accompanies irony.”
Born in Wexford in …
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