Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation JWINOITCHHONNVBERASNATVIIOLNLE The distinguished novelist, John Banville, one of Ireland’s most important living writers, took part in an online conversation recently with Professor Michael Cronin, Director of the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation. John Banville, who is a patron of the Centre, discussed the influence of literature in other languages on his writing and literary development. John Banville has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize, the 2013 Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. In 2005, he was awarded the Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, he was made a Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d’Italia by the Italian Government in 2017. A short story writer and dramatist as well as a novelist, John Banville also publishes crime fiction novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. The conversation is part of a series of online events organised by the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation to explore the art of translation and the influence of translated literature on the writing of contemporary Irish writers. Click here to watch The Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation was officially opened in April 2018 in a magnificently refurbished Georgian building on 36 Fenian Street. The Centre is dedicated to promoting dialogue between the literatures, languages and cultures of the world. Click here to visit the Centre's website 15