Louis de Bernières
Autore di Il mandolino del capitano Corelli
Sull'Autore
Louis de Bernières was born on December 8, 1954, in England to a military family. He spent four months in the British army in his late teens. When he was nineteen, he spent a year in Colombia where he wrote a short story about a true incident of violence that occurred there. Fifteen years later, mostra altro while recuperating from a motorcycle accident, de Bernières used that short story as the basis for the first volume of his Latin American Trilogy, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord, and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. In the 1980s, de Bernières worked as an auto mechanic and then as a supply teacher in London. In 1993 he took a holiday on the Greek island of Cephallonia. That became the setting for Captain Correlli's Mandolin, a novel of war, love, and heroism, which remained on the (London) Times bestseller list for four years. It has sold more than 600,000 copies, has been reprinted in paperback more than thirty times, and has been translated into more than seventeen languages.The book also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. De Bernières was named one of Granta's 20 Best British Novelists in 1993, and Author of the Year 1998 by England's Publishing News. He will be give the opening night address at the 2015 Melbourne Writers Festival. His title The Dust that Falls from Dreams made the New Zealand Best Seller List in 2015 (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Louis de Bernières
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts / Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord / The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman (1996) 37 copie
Captain Corelli's mandolin 2 copie
My Beautiful House 1 copia
Der rote Hund 1 copia
Wittgenstein's Nephew 1 copia
A Partisan's Daughter 1 copia
The Brass Bar [short fiction] 1 copia
Mortification [short story] 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- de Bernières, Louis
- Nome legale
- Bernières-Smart, Louis Henry Piers de
De Bernières-Smart, Louis Henry Piers - Data di nascita
- 1954-12-08
- Sesso
- male
- NazionalitÃ
- England
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Londen, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Luogo di residenza
- Denton, Norfolk, England, UK
Surrey, England, UK - Istruzione
- Victoria University of Manchester
Bradfield College
University of London (MA|Institute of Education)
Leicester Polytechnic - Attività lavorative
- novelist
English teacher - Premi e riconoscimenti
- British Book Award (Author of the Year, 1998)
Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1995)
Granta's Best Of Young British Novelists (1993)
Commonwealth Writers Prize (1992, 1995)
Utenti
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Red dog di Louis de Bernières
Protagonista di questo fantastico libro è un cane randagio dal folto pelo rosso che vagabonda in una vasta area dell'Australia occidentale, viaggiando in autostop da una località all'altra senza fissa dimora. E' conosciuto e amato da tanti, curato e nutrito da tanti padroni, ma in verità rimane libero e indipendente. Red Dog è esistito davvero, addirittura la città mineraria di Karratha gli ha dedicato una statua in memoria. E' un libro tenero, scanzonato, commovente
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 41
- Opere correlate
- 13
- Utenti
- 17,000
- PopolaritÃ
- #1,308
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 439
- ISBN
- 437
- Lingue
- 22
- Preferito da
- 66
