Peter Carey (novelist)

Peter Carey

AO
BornPeter Philip Carey
(1943-05-07) 7 May 1943 (age 81)
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
OccupationNovelist, creative writing teacher
Period1974–present
Notable worksOscar and Lucinda,
True History of the Kelly Gang
Notable awardsBooker Prize
1988, 2001
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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] Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for True History of the Kelly Gang.[2] In May 2008, he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.[3]

Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times, and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[4]

In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and was, for nineteen years, executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.[5]

  1. ^ Man Booker official site: J. G. Farrell [1]; Hilary Mantel "Dame Hilary Mantel | the Man Booker Prizes". Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.; J. M. Coetzee: "J M Coetzee | the Man Booker Prizes". Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016..
  2. ^ John Ezard, "Carey wins Booker for Second Time". The Guardian, 18 October 2001. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
  3. ^ "The Best of the Booker Shortlist Announced" Archived 17 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Man Booker Prize Media Release, 12 May 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
  4. ^ Alison Flood, "Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America Could Be My Best Book". The Guardian, 17 August 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
  5. ^ MFA Creative Writing, Hunter College, City University of New York. Retrieved 30 March 2012.