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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 · 153,524 ratings · 9,953 reviews · 65 distinct works • Similar authors

	Corelli’s Mandolin 4.04 avg rating — 93,322 ratings — published 1994 — 209 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
	Birds Without Wings 4.16 avg rating — 16,499 ratings — published 2004 — 89 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 War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts 4.05 avg rating — 7,276 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 — 6,689 ratings — published 2015 — 41 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 4.10 avg rating — 5,050 ratings — published 1991 — 48 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 — 4,532 ratings — published 1999 — 66 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 — 3,873 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 — 2,875 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 — 2,850 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 3.23 avg rating — 3,075 ratings — published 2008 — 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

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December 2017 New School Read

The Trial by Franz Kafka, 1925, 255 pages

56 votes, 16.8%

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 1996, 468 pages

41 votes, 12.3%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 1941, 104 pages

35 votes, 10.5%

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, 1902, 224 pages

34 votes, 10.2%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 1918, 232 pages

26 votes, 7.8%

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 1981, 647 pages

26 votes, 7.8%

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 1989, 637 pages

24 votes, 7.2%

I, Claudius by Robert Graves, 1934, 468 pages

23 votes, 6.9%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 225 pages

20 votes, 6.0%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pages

19 votes, 5.7%

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

17 votes, 5.1%

So Big by Edna Ferber, 1924, 376 pages

5 votes, 1.5%

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, 1971, 569 pages

5 votes, 1.5%

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, 1967, 200 pages

2 votes, 0.6%

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