DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre is the pen name of Australian writer Peter Warren Finlay (* 1961 in South Australia, Australia).

The adoption of this pseudonym to express the seriousness with which Finlay will perform his new duties as a writer. DBC Pierre stands for Dirty But Clean Peter, what should represent the transformation of his life, because during his life, it is Finlay managed to be shot by his neighbor in Mexico City, amassing debt in the amount of $ 100,000, drug and gambling addiction to be and to go behind a series women ' ( blurb to " Jesus of Texas ").

For his debut "Jesus of Texas" ( original title: Vernon God Little) Finlay was awarded the Booker Prize in 2003. In March 2006, his second novel, " Ludmilla 's Broken English ", which bears the German title "Bunny and Blair " was released. On 2 September 2010 the current date, and thus third novel by DBC Pierre was released " Lights out in Wonderland." This book was published in 2011 under the title "The Book of Gabriel " in German language.

Works

• Jesus of Texas, translated by Karsten Kredel, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2004 ISBN 978-3-351-02996-8
• Bunny and Blair translated by Henning Ahrens, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-351-03096-4
• The book Gabriel translated by Kirsten Riesselmann, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011 ISBN 978-3-8218-6152-4.
• In English: Suddenly Dr Cox, 2009 ISBN 978-1-846-68261-2 (short story in the context of the Ox- Tales project Oxfam )
• In English: Lights out in Wonderland, 2010 ISBN 978-0-571-22889-8