Louis de Bernières
Autor de La mandolina del capitán Corelli
Sobre El Autor
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, mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de 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 copias, 3 reseñas
Captain Corelli's mandolin 2 copias
My Beautiful House 1 copia
The Cat in the Treble Clef 1 copia
Mortification [short story] 1 copia
The Brass Bar [short fiction] 1 copia
A Partisan's Daughter 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (2003) — Contribuidor — 282 copias, 4 reseñas
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- de Bernières, Louis
- Nombre legal
- Bernières-Smart, Louis Henry Piers de
De Bernières-Smart, Louis Henry Piers - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1954-12-08
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
- PaÃs (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Londen, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Lugares de residencia
- Denton, Norfolk, England, UK
Surrey, England, UK - Educación
- Victoria University of Manchester
Bradfield College
University of London (MA|Institute of Education)
Leicester Polytechnic - Ocupaciones
- novelist
English teacher - Premios y honores
- 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)
Miembros
Reseñas
La mandolina del capitán Corelli por Louis De Bernières
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, en una isla griega invadida por los alemanes se desarrollará una inolvidable historia de amor entre una lugarela y un oficial italiano. Una pequeña historia de amor que encarna todas las historias de amor del mundo...
Una historia de amor y una historia de guerra.Un relato que describe la capacidad de los hombres para practicar infatigablemente la crueldad y la pasión. En plena segunda guerra mundial la llegada de los italianos trastoca la apacible vida de un remoto pueblo de la isla griega de Cefalonia. Pero en particular la vida de la hija del médico de la localidad, que se siente cautivada por el capitábn Corelli, el oficial italiano que va a alojarse a su casa, músico consumado y hombre dotado de un agudo sentido del humor.… (más)
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, en una isla griega invadida por los alemanes se desarrollará una inolvidable historia de amor entre una lugarela y un oficial italiano. Una pequeña historia de amor que encarna todas las historias de amor del mundo
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THE WAR ROOM (2)
Magic Realism (3)
Florida (1)
Put a Bird On It (1)
1990s (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
A Novel Cure (3)
BBC Top Books (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Europe (1)
Nineties (1)
My TBR (1)
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EstadÃsticas
- Obras
- 40
- También por
- 15
- Miembros
- 17,084
- Popularidad
- #1,300
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 435
- ISBNs
- 440
- Idiomas
- 22
- Favorito
- 66
