# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-banville
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:56:23.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-banville"
name: "John Banville"
slug: "john-banville"
description: "William John Banville is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. A former member of Aosdána, he voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer."
tagline: "Irish writer (born 1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Banville_(2019)_III.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.202624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0052581"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.john-banville.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump