Louis de Bernières is an English novelist. He is best known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993, de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", as part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. The novel has been translated into at least 11 languages and is an international bestseller.

In 2008, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by De Montfort University in Leicester, which he had attended when it was known as Leicester Polytechnic.

Politically, de Bernières identifies himself as Eurosceptic and has voiced his support for the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.