Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernières is an English novelist, best known for Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a historical war novel set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during World War II. Published in 1994, it won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. Before and alongside his writing he has worked as a landscape gardener, a mechanic, and a schoolteacher in Colombia and England. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006.