Entertainment 15-10-2003 who: Former drug addict DBC Pierre what: Wins Booker prize for "coruscating black comedy" where: LONDON when: Last night snippet: Accepting the prize for his novel `Vernon God Little`, Pierre said: "As Lloyd Bridges said, I think I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue’. My youth was an incredibly deviating and misenergetic affair. To be honest, if there was a single pressure that has brought me to writing, it’s regrets. That’s like rocket fuel. I’ve got regrets for the rest of my life." The Times` literary editor is unenthusiastic, describing the winning novel as satire "of the broadest and bluntest kind, the kind deployed by the teenager in the schoolyard who thinks it`s clever to say the f-word." [... more]

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