Louis de Bernières

Louis de Bernières much acclaimed novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best Book in 1995.  Since then, his novels have continued to chart the huge changes that world events have on personal lives in Birds Without Wings, A Partisan’s Daughter, The Dust that Falls from Dreams and So Much Life Left Over.  He also has a collection of short stories, and three collections of poetry Imagining Alexandria, Of Love and Desire and The Cat in the Treble Clef, which focuses on the connections made and broken with other people.