10 Facts About DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre has resided in the Republic of Ireland and now, according to an August 2020 interview in The Guardian, lives in Cambridgeshire.

DBC Pierre was awarded the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Vernon God Little, his first novel, becoming the third Australian-born author to be so honoured.

DBC Pierre was then raised from early childhood into his 20s in Mexico City's community of Jardines del Pedregal, and attended Edron Academy.

DBC Pierre was taken to revisit his home by Alan Yentob for the BBC television series Imagine in 2004.

DBC Pierre recalls, in a Guardian article of 1 September 2004, that he would later return to Durham most years, usually around the second week in July, to see the Durham Miners Gala.

DBC Pierre succeeded in crossing with the car but found his papers cancelled by the time he reached Mexico City some 18 hours later.

DBC Pierre asserts that, of the following years, nine were spent in a drug-induced haze, culminating with a stay in Australia where he finally collapsed.

DBC Pierre described this period of his life in an interview given on the Australian television show Enough Rope with Andrew Denton in 2006:.

In 2005 DBC Pierre revisited the Mexico of his youth to finally explore and document the downfall of the Aztecs.

DBC Pierre is a contributor to the 2009 rock biography on The Triffids Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids, edited by Australian academics Niall Lucy and Chris Coughran.