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D.B.C. Pierre

DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and cartoonist. He was born in Australia, raised in Mexico and has lived in Ireland and England

His first novel, Vernon God Little, won the 2003 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award, the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the Booker Prize 2003, and is sold in 43 countries. His relationship with Hammer stretches back to earliest childhood. He describes never having been so chilled and intrigued as with the supernatural Hammer films he grew up with. He spent many schooldays drawing replica storyboards on cash register rolls, and holding showings for classmates on a shoebox cinema.

Vernon God Little
Vernon God Little

Vernon God Little

Winner of The Booker Prize 2003

Published by
Faber & Faber
In DBC Pierre’s darkly comic debut novel, an acerbic, foul-mouthed 15-year-old boy goes on the run after a mass shooting at his Texas high school