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DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre
DBC Pierre was born in South Australia in 1961, where his father was lecturing at the University of Adelaide, before moving to Mexico, where he was largely raised. Having since lived in Spain, Australia, England and the West Indies, he now resides in Ireland.

DBC was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003 for his first novel Vernon God Little, becoming the third Australian-born author to be honoured with the prize. Upon winning the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2004, he became the first writer – ever – to receive a Booker and a Whitbread for the same book. The book also won the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize for Comic Literature at the Hay Festival in 2003, and earned the author a James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of University College, Dublin University.

He has told the press he prefers not to consider himself a national of anywhere; that his culture is simply Anglo, his first memories being Australian and his soul Mexican.