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DBC Pierre, born Peter Warren Finlay in Adelaide on 1 January 1961, is an Australian novelist and writer who writes under the pseudonym DBC Pierre. His notable work is Vernon God Little, and his other works include Ox-Tales, Glimmer Train Stories, Petit Mal and Lights Out in Wonderland.
He writes in English and received the Booker Prize and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, OpenAlex, Crossref, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1961
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 71
- Total plays
- 818
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/dbc+pierre">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 1
- Cited by
- 0
Research areas
Most cited works
- Bezgrešna2017 · 0 cit
via OpenAlex · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,881x
- Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2004 · cited 28,245x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,484x
- Outline of a Theory of Practice
· 1977 · cited 19,109x
- Testing for a unit root in time series regression
· 1988 · cited 12,670x
via Crossref · CC0
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
Show 6 more facts
- 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
via Wikidata · CC0
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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.