Louis de Bernières, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Louis de Bernières

English novelist

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1954

Place of Birth: London

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Louis de Bernières (born 8 December 1954) is an English novelist.
He is perhaps best 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 over 11 languages and is an international bestseller. On 16 July 2008 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in the Arts by the De Montfort University in Leicester, which he had attended when it was Leicester Polytechnic.