Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernieres is a bestselling British author famously known for his 4th novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin published in 1994 and which won the author Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best Book. The novel was later shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year and has been translated into over eleven languages, and it is also an international bestseller. Bernieres was selected as one of the “Twenty Best of Young British Novelists” which was a part of a promotion in Granta Magazine in 1993. In 2008, the De Montfort University awarded Bernieres an Honorary Doctorate by the same institution which he schooled when it was Leicester Polytechnic.