Did both Beryl Bainbridge and John Banville win Whitbread awards?
John Banville: William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. John Banville:  He has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov."
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