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  About Louis

  Louis de Bernières was born in 1954, into a military family, and flown out to Jordan in a bomber. At the age of eight he was sent to Grenham House in Kent, a prep school run by two headmasters, one of them a paedophile and the other a sadist. He became fluent in Latin. Then he went to Bradfield College in Berkshire where he spent a lot of time fishing, and working for a local farmer when he was supposed to be doing sports. He then spent four months failing to become an army officer at Sandhurst, when what he really wanted to do was grow his hair long and play the guitar. In disgrace, he fled to Colombia where he worked as a tutor on a ranch belonging to an Englishman who also turned out to be a paedophile. He learned to ride western style, use a lasso, and round up cattle.

  He came home and studied philosophy at Manchester University, financing it by working as a landscape gardener. Afterwards he worked variously as hospital porter, landscape gardener, mechanic in a bent Morris Minor garage in East London, philosophy tutor, carpenter, motorcycle messenger, and English and Drama teacher in Ipswich. He trained to be a teacher in Leicester, and won a masters with distinction at the Institute of Education in London. He worked with truants in Battersea until his

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  Louis de Bernières

  English novelist

  Louis de Bernières
  De Bernières in 2023
  Born	(1954-12-08) 8 December 1954 (age 70) Woolwich, London, England
  Occupation	Novelist
  Period	1990–present

  Louis de Bernières (born 8 December 1954) is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historicalwar novelCaptain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine.^[1]Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book.^[2] It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year.^[3] It has been translated into at least 11 languages and is an international best-seller.

  On 2008, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by De Montfort University in Leicester, which he had attended when it was Leicester Polytechnic.

  Politically, he identifies himself as Eurosceptic and has voiced his support for the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.^[4]

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  Louis H. P. de Bernières-Smart was born near Woolwich in London in 1954 and grew up in Surrey. The name de Bernières is inherited from a French Huguenot ancestor. He was educate

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