He is now a resident of Bungay in Suffolk. Before starting his full-time writing career, Bernieres held several jobs like being motorcycle messenger, mechanic, and also served as a teacher in Columbia. He then joined Victoria University of Manchester and the University of London. He attended Bradfield College and later joined the military at the age of 18 years but resigned after four months. The author was born near Woolwich, London in 1954 and spent his childhood years in Surrey. In 2008, the De Montfort University awarded Bernieres an Honorary Doctorate by the same institution which he schooled when it was Leicester Polytechnic.
Bernieres was selected as one of the “Twenty Best of Young British Novelists” which was a part of a promotion in Granta Magazine in 1993. The novel was later shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year and has been translated into over eleven languages, and it is also an international bestseller. Louis de Bernieres is a bestselling British author famously known for his 4th novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin published in 1994 and which won the author Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best Book.
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