In His Own Words – Booker Winner On His Colorful Past:

DBC Pierre knows what it’s like to experience “90 flavours of trouble riding on his ass,” having been addicted to cocaine and run up such huge debts that he ripped off a friend to the tune of £30,000. Winning the most prestigious literary award in the country worth £50,000 will not counter the lesson of Pierre’s past 20 years: that life is “a hard bastard” and “we should count ourselves lucky for just about everything, including drawing breath.”