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Vernon God Little

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Vernon God Little (2003) is a novel by DBC Pierre. [1]

39 relations: A Confederacy of Dunces, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Americas, Andrew Birkin, Black comedy, Booker Prize, Colin Morgan, Costa Book Awards, DBC Pierre, Debut novel, English language, Faber and Faber, Film4 Productions, Hardcover, Holden Caulfield, J. D. Salinger, John Kennedy Toole, Jonathan Lethem, Life of Pi, Ludmila's Broken English, Mark Twain, Motherless Brooklyn, Paperback, Paweł Pawlikowski, Penny Layden, Rufus Norris, Satire, The Catcher in the Rye, The Line of Beauty, The Mail on Sunday, The Times, Theodore Dalrymple, United Kingdom, Variety (magazine), Werner Herzog, William Shakespeare, Young Vic, 2003 in literature, 2008 Laurence Olivier Awards.

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's suicide.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Andrew Birkin

Andrew Timothy Birkin (born 9 December 1945) is an English screenwriter, director and occasional actor.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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Colin Morgan

Colin Morgan (born 1 January 1986) is an actor from Northern Ireland, best known for playing the title character in the BBC fantasy series Merlin.

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Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards recognizing English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland.

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DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre (born Peter Finlay in 1961) is a writer who wrote the novel Vernon God Little.

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Debut novel

A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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Film4 Productions

Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Hardcover

A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of Binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Holden Caulfield

Holden Caulfield is a fictional character in author J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.

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J. D. Salinger

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John Kennedy Toole

John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Allen Lethem (LEE-thum, born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

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Life of Pi

Life of Pi is a Canadian fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001.

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Ludmila's Broken English

Ludmila's Broken English is the second novel by Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn is a novel by Jonathan Lethem that was first published in 1999.

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Paperback

A paperback is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Paweł Pawlikowski

Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski (born 15 September 1957) is a Polish filmmaker, who has lived and worked most of his life in the UK.

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Penny Layden

Penny Layden (born 1969) is a British actress who has performed at the National Theatre - Table, Timon of Athens, Edward II, with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Old Vic Theatre Shakespeare's Globe and with Shared Experience and the Royal Exchange Theatre amongst other theatre companies.

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Rufus Norris

Rufus Norris (born 16 January 1965) is a British theatre and film director, who is currently the Artistic Director of the National Theatre.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is a story by J. D. Salinger, first published in serial form in 1945-6 and as a novel in 1951.

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The Line of Beauty

The Line of Beauty is a 2004 Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst.

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The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Theodore Dalrymple

Anthony Malcolm Daniels (born 11 October 1949), who generally uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is an English writer and retired prison doctor and psychiatrist.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Young Vic

The Young Vic is a theatre on the Cut, located near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth.

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2003 in literature

This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 2003.

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2008 Laurence Olivier Awards

The 2008 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 2008 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_God_Little

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