![]() ![]() ![]() Aged seven, he fell ill with hepatitis and had to spend a year in bed. He recalls, in a Guardian article of 1 September 2004, he would later return to Durham most years, usually around the second week in July, to see the Durham Miners Gala. ![]() Pierre was taken to revisit his home by Alan Yentob for the BBC television series Imagine in 2004. ![]() 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. Upon winning the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2003 he became the first writer to receive a Booker and a Whitbread for the same book. Pierre was awarded the 2003 Booker Prize for Vernon God Little, his first novel, becoming the third Australian-born author to be so honoured. He has resided in the Republic of Ireland and now, according to an August 2020 interview in The Guardian, lives in Cambridgeshire. Pierre was born in South Australia, and largely raised in Mexico. Peter Warren Finlay (born in 1961), also known as DBC Pierre, is an Australian author who wrote the novel Vernon God Little. ![]()
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