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Louis de Bernières (born 8 December 1954) is a British novelist most famous for his fourth novel, ''Captain 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.〔(Granta's Best of the Young British Novelists: 1993 )〕 ''Captain Corelli's Mandolin'' was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book.〔(The Penguin Readers' Group Website )〕 It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year.〔(Random House: Captain Corelli's Mandolin )〕 It has been translated into over 11 languages and is an international bestseller. On 16 July 2008 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in the Arts by the De Montfort University in Leicester, which he had attended when it was Leicester Polytechnic. == Biography == Louis H. P. de Bernières-Smart was born near Woolwich in London in 1954 and grew up in Surrey, the first part of his surname being inherited from a French Huguenot forefather. He was educated at Bradfield College and joined the army when he was 18, but left after four months of the officer training course at Sandhurst. He next attended the Victoria University of Manchester and the Institute of Education, University of London. Before he began to write full-time he held a wide variety of jobs, including being a mechanic, a motorcycle messenger and an English teacher in Colombia. He now lives near Bungay in Suffolk in a large house.〔(At home with Louis de Bernières - Times Online )〕 In 2009 he separated from his partner, Cathy, who took custody of their children, Robin and Sophie.〔(Daily Mail )〕 He had been spending much time away from his family touring. He subsequently attacked family lawyers as being too adversarial. Eventually, he gained equal custodial rights. De Bernières is an avid musician. He plays the flute, mandolin, clarinet and guitar,〔(about ) at louisdebernieres.co.uk〕 although he considers himself an “enthusiastic but badly-educated and erratic” amateur.〔Louis de Bernières, ''Music from the novels of Louis de Bernières'' (CD booklet; Colchester: Chandos, 1999), pp. 6-7〕 His literary work often references music and the composers he admires, such as the guitar works of Villa-Lobos and Antonio Lauro in the Latin American trilogy, and the mandolin works of Vivaldi and Hummel in ''Captain Corelli’s Mandolin''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis de Bernières」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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