Peter Carey
Peter Carey is the multi-award-winning author of eight novels, plus two highly acclaimed collections of short stories and a memoir, Wrong About Japan. His books have won or been short-listed for every major literary award in Australia. He has won the Booker Prize twice - in 2001 for TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG and in 1988 for Oscar And Lucinda. In 1998 he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs, and again in 2001 for TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG. In 2007 he won the NSW Premier’s Award and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Theft: A Love Story. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Peter Carey now lives in New York.
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I thought it would be a breeze to write about ten of my favourite Australian books for Australia Day, but each time I have thought about bringing my fingers to the keyboard, I change the books I want to include. One solution is to restrict myself to fiction only. Of course this means I won’t be able to mention Recollections of a Bleeding Heart by Don Watson (but this would be perfect to get...
Writing fiction allows you a certain grace that writing opinion doesn’t. Since Pepsi Bears was published this month I’ve been compared to Jonathan Swift, Roald Dahl and Peter Carey. Critics and bloggers have said a great many nice things. But I also write opinion pieces and articles for newspapers and websites. In the comment trails the audience splits into warring factions and I am either...
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Books by Peter Carey
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The True History Of The Kelly Gang
by Peter CareyCarey has reportedly said he waited a lifetime to write this novel. It has probably taken him a lifetime of writing to be able to accomplish it.’ Matt Condon, SMH
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Collected Stories
by Peter Carey‘Peter Carey is one of the great story-tellers of our time, the kind who make you take the telephone off the hook, forget the television and ignore the doorbell.’ New York Review of Books
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Illywhacker
by Peter Carey‘ILLYWHACKER is such an astonishing novel, of such major proportions, that before saying anything else one must record gratitude for its existence.’ Geoffrey Dutton, Bulletin
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Oscar And Lucinda
by Peter Carey‘Luminous and magical, OSCAR AND LUCINDA dances with a shimmer of light and dark as its two noble gamblers play out dreams of God and glass. A spectacular achievement.’ Helen Daniel
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The Tax Inspector
by Peter Carey‘The sheer exuberance and heightened visual power of Mr. Carey's prose is, sentence by sentence, as brilliant and pleasurable as ever, no matter how dark his vision.’ The Globe and Mail
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Bliss
by Peter Carey‘A marvel to read...one “hell” of a good book and undoubtedly the most remarkable Australian novel to be published this year’ The Weekend Australian
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Jack Maggs
by Peter Carey‘This strange, bold, gripping, and wonderful novel is the story of a power struggle, a double love story, a quest story, and a story of trickery and disguise.’ Hermione Lee, The Observer
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My Life As A Fake
by Peter Carey‘We have a great novelist living on the planet with us, and his name is Peter Carey.’ Los Angeles Times Book Review
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The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith
by Peter Carey‘Alternately funny and poignant, a picaresque novel that avid fiction readers will devour. ‘ Booklist
