Author, Louis De Bernieres
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2848 x 4288 px | 24.1 x 36.3 cm | 9.5 x 14.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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Author, Louis De Bernieres at his home in Norfolk...Louis de Bernieres was born in London in 1954. After graduating in Philosophy from the Victoria University of Manchester, he took a postgraduate certificate in Education at Leicester Polytechnic and passed his MA, with distinction, at the University of London. He has held various jobs: landscape gardener, mechanic, officer cadet at Sandhurst and schoolteacher in both Colombia and England..De Bernières' first novel, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, was published in 1990 and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region in 1991. The next year, his second book, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Eurasia Region. His third book, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, was published in 1992. These works were influenced by de Bernières' experiences in Colombia and together make up his 'Latin American trilogy'...Louis de Bernières, who lives in Norfolk, published his first novel in 1990 and was selected by Granta magazine as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. Since then he has become well known internationally as a writer and his sixth novel, Birds Without Wings, came out in 2004. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994), won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Novel. A Partisan's Daughter 2008, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and his new book, Notwithstanding: English Village Stories, is published in Autumn 2009...As well as writing, he plays the flute, mandolin, clarinet and guitar, and performs regularly with the Antonius Players. He was born in London in 1954...Photograph by Jason Bye.Credit Mandatory.t: 07966 173 930.e: mail@jasonbye.com.w: http://www.jasonbye.com.