Louis de Bernières
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- de Bernières, Louis
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1954-12-08
- Place of birth
- London
Wikipedia
Louis de Bernières (born 8 December 1954) is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into at least 11 languages and is an international best-seller.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006. In 2008, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by De Montfort University in Leicester, which he had attended when it was Leicester Polytechnic.
Politically, he identifies himself as Eurosceptic and has voiced his support for the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.
Annotation
English novelist. He wrote the Latin American trilogy.Last modified: 2020-10-03 (revision #29236)
Editions
| Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Traum aus Stein und Federn | Paperback | 978-3-596-16648-0 | 2006-06 |
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- Louis de Bernières wrote Red Dog
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- 2023-12-17