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SUMMARY:DBC Pierre
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DESCRIPTION:Booker-winner DBC Pierre will make a rare public appearance a
 t The Martin Harris Centre at The University of Manchester on Monday 22n
 d February 2010 at 6.30pm \n\nThis event is the first in the 2010 season
  of the Literature Live series of readings run by the Centre for New Wri
 ting\, the academic home of Professor Martin Amis. The series of events 
 brings the best-known contemporary novelists and poets to Manchester\, t
 o discuss and read from their work. \n\nDBC Pierre\, the pseudonym for M
 exican-Australian author Peter Finlay\, was born in 1961 in Reynella\, A
 ustralia.  Lavishly brought up in Mexico City before a dramatic fall fro
 m grace\, DBC Pierre's fascinating back-story includes drugs\, debt and 
 illegal money-making schemes. For most of the 1990s\, he lived as a recl
 use - in his own words\, "repolarizing and deconstructing himself" while
  listening to Russian orchestral music. He found work as a cartoonist an
 d a designer and\, in 2000\, relocated to Ireland\, where he wrote his d
 ebut novel\, Vernon God Little (2003). A dark satire set in the aftermat
 h of a Texas high school massacre - Vernon God Little was the winner of 
 the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.  His second novel\, Ludmila's Bro
 ken English\, was published in 2006 and Lights Out in Wonderland\, his t
 hird novel is eagerly anticipated.\n\nTickets: £5 and £3 concessions\n\n
 Tickets are available from Quay Tickets on http://www.quaytickets.com or
  0870 428 0785. You can also contact the Martin Harris Centre box office
  on 0161 275 8951 or e-mailing boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk.\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama\, Manchester
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