Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell earns my admiration the honest way: through sheer command of his craft. Born in London in 1944, he turned the Napoleonic rifleman Richard Sharpe into a global fixture and then chronicled the unification of England across the thirteen-volume Saxon Stories, work recognised with an OBE. What impresses me is not the volume but the alchemy: he takes the dust of documented history and breathes warm, bloody human drama into it, a trick that cannot be faked with shallow research. I deeply respect any novelist who uses real events as scaffolding and keeps telling vivid stories well into a long career.

Name (English)

Bernard Cornwell

Name (Japanese)

バーナード・コーンウェル

Reading

ばーなーど・こーんうぇる

Born

February 23, 1944 (age 82)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

writer / novelist / journalist / historian

University

University College London

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.bernardcornwell.net/
• Xhttps://x.com/BernardCornwell
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB

Tags

• writer
• novelist
• journalist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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