Louis de Bernières

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Louis de Bernières

Louis de Bernières (born December 8, 1954 in London ) is a British writer .

Life

Louis de Bernières grew up in the Middle East as the son of a British officer. After school, he enrolled at Sandhurst Military Academy , but soon left the British Military School. In the following years, de Bernières stayed in Latin America before returning to London and taking up a degree in philosophy. Before he achieved his first success with the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin in 1994 , he worked as a landscape gardener and car mechanic. His novel Birds Without Wings (German title dream of stone and feathers ) presents a love story set in an Anatolian village on the foil of the declining Ottoman Empire . In his ten-year novel, De Bernières sheds light on the cultural diversity that was once visible in the coexistence of Jews , Christians and Muslims even in everyday village life, tells of the rise of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and presents the readers with the growing Turkey as a plaything of occidental great powers.

Over the years, de Bernières received (in various categories) the Commonwealth Writers Prize ; 1991 for The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts , 1992 for Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord , 1995 for Captain Corelli's Mandolin and 2005 for Birds Without Wings . He also received a British Book Award in 1997 and the Whitbread Novel Award in 2004.

Works

introduction

stories

  • Labels. A story. ("Labels"). Edition Argon, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87024-494-1 (illustrated by Peter Schössow).
  • The red dog. A story from Australia. ("Red Dog"). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-15592-4 .
  • Notwithstanding. Stories from an English village. Harvill Secker, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-8465-53301 .

radio play

  • Sunday Morning at the Center of the World. A play for voices. Vintage, London 2001, ISBN 0-09-942844-X ( produced and performed for the BBC in 1998 ).

Novels

  • The random war of Don Emmanuel. Novel. ("The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts"). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16787-6 .
  • Señor Vivo and the coca letters. Novel. ("Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord"). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16786-8 .
  • The cardinal's child. Novel. ("The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman"). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16785-X .
  • Corelli's mandolin. Novel. ("Captain Corelli's Mandolin"). Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-455-00323-0 .
  • Dream made of stone and feathers. Novel. ("Birds Without Wings"). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-16648-0 .
  • The partisan. Novel. ("A partisan's daughter.") Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-17923-7 .

Adaptations

Film adaptations

music

  • Craig Ogden: Music from the novels of Louis de Bernières. "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" and "The Latin Trilogy" . Chandos Edition, Colcester 2009 (1 CD).

literature

  • Con Coroneos: Louis de Bernières' "Captain Corelli's mandolin". Continuum Press, London 2001, ISBN 0-8264-5236-1 .
  • Margaret Reynolds: Louis de Bernières. The essential guide to contemporary literature. Vintage, London 2002, ISBN 0-09-943757-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bernières, Louis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH London