John Banville, winner of the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters 2014, offered this morning a meeting with students and teachers at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, where he defended his "multiple personality". "We all are two different people. The one that gets out of their lover's bed is not the same as the one who finds their worst enemy in the street", said the author of noir fiction who signs his works under the pseudonym of Benjamin Black.

Banville was welcomed at the entrance of the Library of the Campus of Humanities by the Vice-Rector for Students, Luis Rodriguez, and the Dean, Cristina Valdés. During almost one hour, Banville took the stage and answered the questions of two teachers and two students of the Faculty: Juan Tazón, Luz Mar González, Jennifer Galligan and Ángela Suárez. The act was moderated by Socorro Suárez.

The winner of the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters confessed that he writes noir fiction on the computer, quickly, wanting to be a good artisan and with the aim of not leaving any trace of how the work was created, while, as Banville, he writes with a fountain pen and "sentence by sentence".

At the end of the act "The Strange Case of Dr. Banville and Mr. Black", the author unveiled a plaque that commemorates his visit to the Faculty and received a miniature of it. The distinction will be placed alongside those that remember the presence of other winners of the Award at the Campus, such as Leonard Cohen, Martha Nussbaum and Antonio Muñoz Molina.