Louis de Bernières
Louis de Bernières is a celebrated English novelist best known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and has been translated into over eleven languages, becoming an international bestseller.
In 1993, he was named one of Granta's "20 Best of Young British Novelists." He attended De Montfort University in Leicester, which later awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in the Arts in 2008.
Politically, de Bernières identifies as Eurosceptic and has publicly supported the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.
