John Banville has confounded the bookies and the critics by winning the 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel "The Sea". The bookies had Julian Barnes down as favourite, and the public vote on the Man Booker webpage had gone to Kazuo Ishiguro, while we at Authortrek.com had favoured Zadie Smith. However, the judges were charged with choosing the best novel of the year, and we must respect their judgement. John Banville, in his acceptance speech, thanked his publishers, Macmillan Picador, for sticking with him even though previous novels have not sold as well as they could have done. "The Sea" will undoubtedly reacquaint the reading public with John Banville's work.
http://www.authortrek.com
