Louis de Bernières
United KingdomAbout
Louis de Bernières is an English novelist born in London in 1954. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a teacher in Colombia, a mechanic, a gardener, and briefly trained as an army officer. His experiences in South America and admiration for Latin American writers, particularly Gabriel García Márquez, influenced his early novels and their blend of political satire, history, and elements of magical realism. De Bernières rose to international fame with Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1994), which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. His other acclaimed works include Birds Without Wings (2004), a sweeping novel about the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and The Dust That Falls from Dreams (2015). In 1993, he was selected by Granta magazine as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists.
