DBC Pierre

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  • 20 Jun 2012:

    Axolotls are salamander-like creatures that can regrow their limbs, jaws and even spines. DBC Pierre on why he is collaborating on a symphony inspired by the creatures he once kept as pets

  • Mexican axolotl Interactive, 20 Jun 2012:

    The Booker prize winner has collaborated with musicians to create An Axolotl Odyssey, a symphony in honour of the almost-extinct Mexican creature. It will be performed at London's Natural History Museum on 23 June – but hear a snatch of DBC Pierre's words here first

  • An Aztec mural painted onto hoardings in Mexico City Video (5min 51sec), 12 Jun 2012:

    Award-winning author DBC Pierre grew up in Mexico City. In the second part of his guide to the city, he traces its Aztec history

  • Author DBC Pierre in Mexico City Video (13min 17sec), 6 Jun 2012:

    Award-winning author DBC Pierre takes us on a tour of the San Angel neighbourhood in Mexico City, where he grew up

  • 5 Mar 2011:

    Authors including Alan Bennett, DBC Pierre and Margaret Atwood defy chill to celebrate World Book Night

  • DBC Pierre, writer 17 Jan 2011:

    DBC Pierre: 'I'm very suggestible; I become my characters – and as my books are all in the presence of death, it can be difficult'

  • 5 Sep 2010: The Booker-winning author's toxic rant against the excesses of modern capitalism is doomed to heroic failure, says Tim Adams
  • 28 Aug 2010: Alan Warner is impressed by DBC Pierre's fast and furious satire on contemporary decadence
  • DBC Pierre casts a caustic eye on the world 22 Aug 2010: DBC Pierre tells Sean O'Hagan how we are all in danger of following in the 'dangerously blurred' footsteps of his youth
  • 11 Oct 2008:

    October 11, Garden Theatre, Imperial Square, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

  • 13 May 2007:

    Theatre: DBC Pierre's cut-out characters succeed with comic verve, but Fallujah fails to ignite, writes Susannah Clapp.

  • 9 Dec 2006:

    Guardian book club: When readers came to hear DBC Pierre discuss Vernon God Little at the Guardian book club, they encountered a droll and candid analyst of his own fiction, says John Mullan.

  • 25 Nov 2006:

    Guardian Book Club: In Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre stretches the usual into grotesque shapes to make censure funny, says John Mullan.

  • 24 Nov 2006:

    This month, the book under discussion is DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little. What did you make of it?

  • 18 Nov 2006:

    Guardian book club: DBC Pierre seasons Texan English with a dash of poetry to create the narrative voice of Vernon God Little, says John Mullan.

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