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Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. He is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood. [1]
Enter Peter Carey, our world-renowned novelist and Booker Prize winner based in New York. As a writer, he has been bold and brave before - from his fabulous short fiction in the '70s through to his remodelling of Australian history with Illywhacker and Oscar and Lucinda.
Author Carey is often named as the next contender from Australia for the grand Nobel Prize in the field of Literature. Being the winner of Booker Award twice, he was nominated for a special Best of Booker Prize in 2008.
Peter Carey, Australian writer known for featuring the surreal in his short stories and novels. He won the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and for True History of the Kelly Gang. Learn more about Carey’s life and work, including his other notable books.
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Peter Carey is an Australian author who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang.
Since then he has published five novels: My Life as a Fake , Theft, His Illegal Self, The Chemistry of Tears, and Parrot and Olivier in America ( which was a finalist for both the U.S National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize.) He is at work on a new novel. Peter Carey -.
