Date: March 21-22 2007
Venues: University of Malta (Msida) and St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity (Valletta)

Readers who follow the contemporary literary scene in the UK will be thrilled to learn that Louis de Bernières, one of the foremost novelists writing in Britain at the moment, will be visiting Malta during the third week of March. He is brought over by the British Council and Miller Distributors and the Maltese reading public will have a number of opportunities to hear him talking about his work.

Readings:

Wednesday, March 21 at 13.00 at the University of Malta, Lecture Theatre 2. This event is being organised in collaboration with the Department of English and KSU.
Wednesay, March 21 at 19.00 at St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Music Room
For booking information (tickets Lm 1) please contact the booking office: phone 21 22 32 00 or 21 22 32 16 or email boxoffice@sjcav.org

Book-signings:

Wednesday, March 21 at 15.00 at the Agenda Bookshop on Campus
Thursday, March 22 at 12.30 at Sapienza Bookshop in Republic Street, Valletta
Thursday, March 22 at18.30at Agenda Bookshop at the Waterfront in Valletta.

Louis de Bernières is perhaps most famous for Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1994), which was both a popular and a critical success and was adapted into a film in 2001 by director John Madden. But he is also the author of a number of other impressive novels, including The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts (1990), Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord (1991), The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman (1992), and most recently the acclaimed Birds without Wings (2004). His other works include the novella Red Dog (2001), the play Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World (2001), and the Introduction to the Book of Job published in the Canongate series of individual books of the Bible (1998).

Louis de Bernières was born in London in 1954. He graduated from the Victoria University of Manchester, took a postgraduate certificate in education at Leicester Polytechnic and passed his MA, with distinction, at the University of London. He has held various jobs: landscape gardener, mechanic, officer cadet at Sandhurst and schoolteacher in both Colombia and England. Currently he lives in Norfolk, England.

In 1993 Granta magazine nominated Louis de Bernières in one of its issues as one of twenty ‘Best British Young Novelists’, and he would go on to win a number of literary awards, including the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.