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Louis de Bernières

Born

in Woolwich, London, England

December 08, 1954

Website

https://www.louisdebernieresofficial.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Children's Books

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Louis de Bernières 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 over 11 languages and is an international best-seller.

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.
Politically, he identifies himself as Eurosceptic and has voiced his su ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 151,871 ratings · 9,810 reviews · 61 distinct works • Similar authors

	Corelli’s Mandolin 4.03 avg rating — 92,597 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birds Without Wings 4.16 avg rating — 16,213 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts 4.05 avg rating — 7,204 ratings — published 1990 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dust That Falls from Dreams 3.62 avg rating — 6,633 ratings — published 2015 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord 4.11 avg rating — 5,000 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Dog 3.81 avg rating — 4,469 ratings — published 1999 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzmán 4.12 avg rating — 3,845 ratings — published 1992 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So Much Life Left Over (Daniel Pitt Trilogy, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 2,827 ratings — published 2018 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notwithstanding 3.81 avg rating — 2,816 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Partisan's Daughter 3.22 avg rating — 3,055 ratings — published 2008 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Polls

January 2018 New School Poll

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 468 pages, 1996

68 votes, 19.5%

Dubliners by James Joyce, 207 pages, 1914

39 votes, 11.2%

On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages, 1957

29 votes, 8.3%

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, 181 pages, 1953

24 votes, 6.9%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 127 pages, 1923

23 votes, 6.6%

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 416 pages, 1980

22 votes, 6.3%

The Wreath (book one of Kristin Lavransdatter) by Sigrid Undset, 305 pages, 1920

17 votes, 4.9%

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pages, 1940

16 votes, 4.6%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 468 pages, 1913

16 votes, 4.6%

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pages, 1994

15 votes, 4.3%

The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 425 pages, 1904

13 votes, 3.7%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941

12 votes, 3.4%

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 182 pages, 1962

12 votes, 3.4%

Light in August by William Faulkner, 507 pages, 1932

11 votes, 3.2%

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages, 1985

10 votes, 2.9%

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 189 pages, 1967

9 votes, 2.6%

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 384 pages, 1956

7 votes, 2.0%

The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace, 134 pages, 1905

6 votes, 1.7%

349 total votes

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