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Peter Carey (1)

This page covers the author of True History of the Kelly Gang.

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Peter Carey was born on May 7, 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia. His first two books, The Fat Man in History (1974) and War Crimes (1979), were short story collections. His first novel, Bliss, was published in 1982. At the time he was balancing his writing career with the operation of an advertising agency in Sydney, and his books were not generally known outside of Australia. He began to receive international attention when Illywhacker was published in 1985. He won the Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. His other works include The Tax Inspector, Parrot and Olivier in America, and The Chemistry of Tears. He also won the Miles Franklin Award three times. In 2015 he made the Australian Book Designers Association Award shortlist for his title Amnesia. This title also made the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlist. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from True History of the Kelly Gang… (more)
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Works by Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang 4,141 copies, 78 reviews
Oscar and Lucinda 4,053 copies, 67 reviews
Jack Maggs 1,717 copies, 32 reviews
Parrot and Olivier in America 1,713 copies, 64 reviews
My Life as a Fake 1,474 copies, 36 reviews
Theft: A Love Story 1,309 copies, 42 reviews
Illywhacker 1,177 copies, 14 reviews
Bliss 948 copies, 9 reviews
The Tax Inspector 813 copies, 10 reviews
His Illegal Self 740 copies, 26 reviews
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith 696 copies, 7 reviews
The Chemistry of Tears 687 copies, 34 reviews
Wrong About Japan 574 copies, 24 reviews
The Fat Man in History and Other Stories 417 copies, 5 reviews
30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account 365 copies, 5 reviews
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Plainsong (Introduction, some editions) 5,438 copies, 207 reviews
The Future Dictionary of America (Contributor) 622 copies, 3 reviews
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short… (Contributor) 335 copies, 5 reviews
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (Contributor) 206 copies
Granta 70: Australia - The New New World (Contributor) 164 copies, 1 review
Granta 24: Inside Intelligence (Contributor) 150 copies
Granta 108: Chicago (Contributor) 131 copies, 1 review
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (Contributor) 115 copies, 3 reviews
The Granta Book of the Family (Contributor) 86 copies
The Penguin Century of Australian Stories (Contributor) 73 copies
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review
The Best Australian Science Fiction: A Fifty Year Collection (Contributor) 64 copies
Centaurus: The Best of Australian SF (Contributor) 40 copies
Into the Widening World: International Coming-of-Age Stories (Contributor) 27 copies
Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (Contributor) 25 copies, 1 review
Oscar and Lucinda [1997 film] (Original book) 24 copies
Australian Love Stories: An Anthology (Contributor) 15 copies
Classic Australian Short Stories (Contributor) 13 copies
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Carey, Peter Philip
Other names
Date of birth
1943-05-07
Date of death
Burial location
Gender
male
Nationality
Australia
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Place of death
Cause of death
Places of residence
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Queensland, Australia
London, England, UK
Education
Geelong Grammar School
Monash University
Occupations
short-story writer
novelist
advertising copywriter
creative writing teacher (New York University)
writing instructor (Princeton University)
Relationships
Agents
Amanda Urban (ICM)
Organizations
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2016)
Order of Australia
Awards and honors
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1989)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2007, 2009)
Short biography
Peter Carey is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda, and won for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang. In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.

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