DBC Pierre Writer

DBC Pierre (born Peter Finlay) is a writer who wrote the novel Vernon God Little.He was born in South Australia in 1961, before moving to Mexico, where Pierre was largely raised. He now resides in the Republic of Ireland.Pierre was awarded the 2003 Booker Prize for fiction for Vernon God Little, his first novel, becoming the third Australian-born author to be so honoured. 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. 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.Before becoming an author, Pierre, using his birth name, was an actor. His most notable role was as Private (later Lance Corporal) "Bluey" in the television mini-series Anzacs which premiered on the Nine Network in Australia on 27 October 1985. Although Bluey, who operated the Lewis gun, was one of the main characters in the story, he did not speak a word (even during songs sung by his platoon he only whistled) and was rarely seen without a half smoked Roll-Your-Own cigarette hanging out of his mouth. He starred alongside Paul Hogan, Andrew Clarke, Jon Blake and Megan Williams.