![]() ![]() ![]() In 1993, he was also selected by Granta magazine as one of the Best of Young British Novelists. All three works were influenced by his experience of living and working in Colombia. In 1992, he published “The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman”, which completed his ‘Latin American trilogy’. His second novel, “Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord”, won the same prize a year later. ![]() His first novel, “The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts”, published in 1990, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region in 1991. He has held various jobs: landscape gardener, mechanic, officer cadet at Sandhurst, and schoolteacher in both Colombia and England. His fourth novel, “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” about a love story set in World War II, has now sold over 4 million copies worldwide, translated into 36 languages and has been made into a Hollywood film starring Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz.īorn in London, after graduating in Philosophy from the Victoria University of Manchester, he took a postgraduate certificate in Education at Leicester Polytechnic and passed his MA, with distinction, at the University of London. Louis de Bernières is one of the UK’s leading, bestselling novelists. ![]()
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