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Peter Carey
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943
- Works
- 177
Top works
- Theft
- De Sortibus
- Illywhacker
- Sydney Hi' de'0' - US
- Data Protection
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Key facts
- Born
- Peter Philip Carey , ( 1943-05-07 ) 7 May 1943 (age 83) , Bacchus Marsh , Victoria , Australia
- Occupation
- Novelist , creative writing teacher
- Period
- 1974–present
- Notable works
- True History of the Kelly Gang , Oscar and Lucinda , Bliss
- Notable awards
- Booker Prize , 1988, 2001
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Bacchus Marsh
- Occupation
- children's writer
- Educated at
- Monash University
- Employer
- Hunter College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- True History of the Kelly Gang
- Field of work
- creative writing
- Official website
- www.petercareybooks.com
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- date of birth
- 1943-05-07
- birth name
- Peter Philip Carey
- ethnic group
- Australians
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Peter Carey
- different from
- Peter Carey
- nominated for
- World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
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Encyclopedic overview
Peter Philip Carey (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for more than three decades.
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. 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. In May 2008, he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peter Carey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.