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Cultura i Mitjans | Redacció | Actualitzat el 08/09/2017 a les 10:57 Benjamin Black guanya el premi RBA de novel·la negra amb «Pecado» L'escriptor irlandès John Banville, que s'amaga darrere del pseudònim, s'emporta un guardó dotat amb 125.000 euros L'autor irlandès John Banville, després de rebre el premi RBA de novel·la policíaca | ACN Benjamin Black, pseudònim rere el qual s'amaga l'autor irlandès John Banville, ha guanyat el premi RBA de novel·la policíaca amb l'obra Pecado. Banville ha rebut distincions com el Premi Franz Kafka, considerat sovint com l'avantsala del Premi Nobel, el Booker Prize o el Premi Príncep d'Astúries de les Lletres del 2014. El jurat ha considerat que Benjamin Black ha tornat a dotar el gènere policíac d'una qualitat literària excepcional "sense oblidar el sentit de l'humor ni la denúncia dels abusos dels poderosos sobre els dèbils". També ha afegit que l'autor utilitza "una prosa extraordinària per descriure personatges, ambients i reflexions de calat vital profund". El llibre arribarà al mercat l'11 de setembre i ho farà en llengua castellana abans que en cap altra. El premi RBA de novel·la policíaca està dotat amb 125.000 euros i l'han guanyat autors com el desaparegut Francisco González Ledesma, Andrea Camilleri, Philip Kerr, Harlan Koben, Patricia Cornwell, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Don Winslow i Ian Rankin. Banville va debutar el 1970 amb un llibre de contes, Long Lankin, i ha publicat les trilogies The https://www.naciodigital.cat/noticia/137877/benjamin-black-guanya-premi-rba-novella-negra-amb-pecado Pagina 1 de 2 Revolutions Trilogy, Frames i la formada pels llibres Eclipse, Imposturas i Antigua Luz. També ha escrit El mar, que li va valdre el Man Booker Prize el 2005, Los infinitos o La guitarra azul. Amb el pseudònim Benjamin Black ha publicat El secreto de Christine, El otro nombre de Laura, En busca de April, Muerte en verano, Venganza o Wolf on a String, entre d'altres. L'autor irlandès John Banville, al mig, rep el premi RBA de novel·la policíaca Foto: ACN https://www.naciodigital.cat/noticia/137877/benjamin-black-guanya-premi-rba-novella-negra-amb-pecado Pagina 2 de 2.

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