Man Booker Prize winner

So the dirty rotten scoundrel DBC Pierre has won the 2003 Man Booker Prize for his first novel, Vernon God Little. The story behind the book (drugs, cheating of friends, debts of reportedly three times the prize of £50,000) is very intriguing - I must read it!
Since I haven't read it yet, I can't comment on whether this was an appropriate winner. All I can say is that I'm glad that Monica Ali did not win with Brick Lane, as I thought this book was the most overrated of 2003. I enjoyed Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, but thought it covered a lot of the same ground as The Handmaid's Tale (and numerous other sci-fi books influenced by this fantastic book) and therefore didn't deserve a prize.