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DBC 'Dirty But Clean' Pierre - Booker Prize Winner 2003 comes to Wellington

21 May 2004
Winner of the Main Booker Prize for Fiction 2003, DBC Pierre set the literary world alight with his first novel Vernon God Little, a visceral account of a young man's encounter with murder,…

Winner of the Main Booker Prize for Fiction 2003, DBC Pierre set the literary world alight with his first novel Vernon God Little, a visceral account of a young man's encounter with murder, exploitation and TV cameras.

Join us for an evening with DBC Pierre discussing his brilliant work and eclectic life. Presented by the New Zealand Book Council and Penguin Books (NZ).
Winner of the Main Booker Prize for Fiction 2003, DBC Pierre set the literary world alight with his first novel Vernon God Little, a visceral account of a young man's encounter with murder, exploitation and TV cameras.

Join us for an evening with DBC Pierre discussing his brilliant work and eclectic life. Presented by the New Zealand Book Council and Penguin Books (NZ).
Australian-born, and raised in Mexico, DBC Pierre has often caused controversy with his alarming honesty, once calling himself 'a conniving bastard'! While his creditors awaited the spoils of literature's greatest prize, few could dispute the novel's distinctive quality.

Join us for an evening with DBC Pierre discussing his brilliant work and eclectic life.

6pm, Wednesday 9 June 2004

St Andrews on the Terrace
30 The Terrace, Wellington
Chair: Cliff Fell

Book Council members and students $7.00
Non-members $10.00
Event Bookseller - Unity Books