Although I am about to turn 80, John Banville He has no intention of slowing down his creative pace. He continues to publish a novel a year and has a busy schedule of presentations around the world. Ironic, talkative and always ready to humiliate himself –"Do you really understand me? Sometimes I think I'm just talking nonsense," he said on Friday afternoon–, the Irish writer has been one of the highlights of the BCNegra 2025 thanks to the presentation ofThe drowned (Bromera/Alfaguara), the latest novel from his most famous pseudonym, Benjamin Black, with which he has signed a dozen titles.