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DBC Pierre is the pseudonym of Peter Warren Finlay, an Australian novelist and writer born in Adelaide in 1961. He writes in English and is recognized for his notable work, *Vernon God Little*. His literary contributions include works such as *Ox-Tales*, *Glimmer Train Stories*, *#64*, *Petit Mal*, *Lights out in Wonderland*, and *Ludmila's gebroken Engels*.
Finlay has received the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the Booker Prize. He is included in the Booker Prize collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1961
- Works
- 29
Top works
- Ox-Tales
- Glimmer Train Stories, #64
- Petit Mal
- Lights out in Wonderland
- Ludmila's gebroken Engels
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- Peter Warren Finlay , 1961 (age 64 – 65), Old Reynella, South Australia
- Pen name
- DBC Pierre
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Period
- 2003–present
- Genre
- Satire, dark comedy , allegory
- Notable works
- Vernon God Little
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Adelaide
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Booker Prize
- Notable work
- Vernon God Little
- Official website
- www.dbcpierre.com
- Image
- DBC Pierre (2004) by Guenter Prust.jpg
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- Commons category
- DBC Pierre
- date of birth
- 1961-01-01
- pseudonym
- DBC Pierre
- name in native language
- DBC Pierre
- birth name
- Peter Warren Finlay
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Peter Warren Finlay (born in 1961), also known as DBC Pierre, is an Australian author who wrote the novel Vernon God Little.
Pierre was born in South Australia, and largely raised in Mexico. He has resided in the Republic of Ireland and now, according to an August 2020 interview in The Guardian, lives in Cambridgeshire.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “DBC Pierre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.