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DBC Pierre is an Australian novelist who won the Man Booker Prize in 2003 for his debut novel Vernon God Little. He was born in South Australia, raised in Mexico, and now lives in England.
DBC Pierre is an Australian-born writer who won the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his debut novel Vernon God Little. He is also the author of Ludmila's Broken English, Lights Out in Wonderland, Breakfast with the Borgias and other works of fiction and non-fiction.
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When not travelling far and wide DBC Pierre divides his time between England and a mountainside in Ireland. Vernon God Little, his debut novel, won the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, and was followed by Ludmila’s Broken English and Lights Out in Wonderland.
DBC Pierre was an accident or a late surprise (depending upon who you ask) for a bomber-pilot-turned-scientist, and an air-traffic-controller-turned pianist with an all-female swing band, in Australia of 1961.
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- Who Are Your Heroes?
- What Book Last Changed Your Thinking?
- Which Political Figure Do You Look Up to?
- In Which Time and Place, Other Than Your Own, Would You Like to Live?
- What TV Show Could You Not Live without?
- Who Would Paint Your portrait?
- What’s Your Theme Tune?
- What’s The Best Piece of Advice You’Ve Ever received?
- What Single Thing Would Make Your Life Better?
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Being christened in church. It could be a false memory. But I remember the cold, the echoes of water. I remember howling about it. The devil didn’t want to come out.
My childhood hero was Shintaro, a Samurai from Japanese TV. Kabuki faces are natural to kids, and Shintaro was a master of open-mouthed horror. If I combine the Kabuki with the physicist Hugh Everett III, author of the relative state formulation of quantum mechanics, there’s a hero for today.
The Guardiansby John Christopher, a 1970 young-adult novel and a poignant distance-measuring device of what we expected and wished young adults to be.
The Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata Salazar. In the small print of his legend lies the chaos of practical matters he surfed while staying true to his goal.
Urban western Europe in 1735, a peak of civilisation and manners (granted: as an affluent white male).
Judge Judy. The fast turnover of guests makes the show a buffet of syntax and mannerisms. You can spot changes entering the language as guests from different regions repeat forms. (Currently: “I had went”, “They had tooken”, which is climbing through the American middle class and headed over here.)
No one that I know of. If it’s a fantasy question, then František Kupka, who painted The Yellow Scale.
A quantum superposition of three elements: the Andante in Holst’s Japanese Suite, the theme from the original Lost in Spaceand Johnny Aloha’s cover of “California Gurls”.
Work with what you have today, don’t wait for better conditions. It’s probably why my first work was a book and not a painting or a film.
A tapir. Just its form moving around through the window would be a constant reminder that we live in a Goldilocks universe, where beauty can be strange in its proportions.
DBC Pierre, who won the Booker Prize in 2003, answers questions about his childhood, heroes, books, TV, and more. He reveals his fascination with tapirs, quantum mechanics, and surveillance capitalism.
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DBC Pierre is an Australian-born novelist who won the Booker Prize in 2003 for his debut novel Vernon God Little. He is also a designer, cartoonist and a fan of Hammer horror films.
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Jan 1, 2003 · D.B.C. Pierre. Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre debuts of the twenty-first century so far.
