Louis de Bernières

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

Life

Louis de Bernières grew up the son of a British officer in the Middle East. After school, he enrolled in the Military Academy Sandhurst, the British military but left school soon afterwards. In the following years, de Bernières held on in Latin America before he returned to London and took up the study of philosophy. Until 1994 he was able to record his first success with the novel Captain Corelli 's Mandolin, he worked as a landscaper and car mechanic. His novel Birds Without Wings ( German title dream in stone and springs) presents a gambling in an Anatolian village love story on the film of the declining Ottoman Empire. De Bernières illuminated in his more than ten years to the resulting novel once in the coexistence of Jews, Christians and Muslims themselves in village life visible cultural diversity, tells of the rise of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and provides the readers with the rising Turkey as a pawn occidental major powers in mind.

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

Works

Introduction

  • The Book of Job. ( "The Book of Job" ). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3- 596-14504 -X ( The Bible Project. 3).

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.

Radioplay

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

Novels

  • The War of Don Emmanuel random. Novel. ( " The War of Don Emmanuel 's Nether Parts" ). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16787-6.
  • Señor Vivo and the Kokabriefe. Novel. ( " Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord "). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16786-8.
  • The child of the Cardinal. Novel. ("The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman "). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3- 596-16785 -X.
  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Novel. ( "Captain Corelli 's Mandolin "). Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-455-00323-0.
  • Dream of stone and feathers. Novel. ( "Birds Without Wings "). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-16648-0.
  • A partisan 's daughter. A novel. Harvill Secker, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-8465-5142-0.

Adaptations

Films

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).
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