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Louis de Bernières


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Louis de Bernières (born 8 December 1954) is a British novelist most famous for his fourth 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.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
 
Series
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Dog
   1. Red Dog (2001)
   2. Blue Dog (2016)
     aka Red Dog: True Blue
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Novels
   Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994)
     aka Corelli's Mandolin
   Birds Without Wings (2004)
   A Partisan's Daughter (2008)
   Light Over Liskeard (2023)
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Collections
   The Brighton Book (2005) (with others)
   Notwithstanding (2009)
   Imagining Alexandria (poems) (2013)
   Of Love And Desire (poems) (2016)
   The Cat in the Treble Clef (poems) (2018)
   Labels and Other Stories (2019)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Labels (1993)
   A Day Out for Mehmet Erbil (1999)
   Gunter Weber's Confession (2001)
   The Death of Miss Agatha Feakes (2011)
   The Girt Pike (2011)
   Talking to George (2011)
   Station Jim (2019)
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Louis de Bernières recommends
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Arrested Song (2023)
Irena Karafilly
"Karafilly succeeds brilliantly where I had decided not even to try. A very accomplished novel."
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Larchfield (2017)
Polly Clark
"A mysterious, wondrous, captivating book."
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Himself (2016)
Jess Kidd
"I love this book."

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Anthologies containing stories by Louis de Bernières
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Ghosts of Christmas Past (2017)
edited by
Tim Martin
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Sightlines (2001)
edited by
P D James and Harriet Harvey Wood
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Picador New Writing: Vol 10 (2001)
(Picador New Writing)
edited by
Penelope Lively and George Szirtes

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Awards
Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (2004) : Birds Without Wings
Costa Book Awards Best Novel nominee (2008) : A Partisan's Daughter


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