Writer, born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, SE Australia. He attended Geelong Grammar School before beginning a career as an advertising copywriter. His first book, The Fat Man in History (1974), was a collection of short stories, and he was quickly regarded as an innovative force in Australian writing. Later books include Bliss (1981), Illywhacker (1985), Oscar and Lucinda (1988, Booker), The Tax Inspector (1991), The True History of the Kelly Gang (2001, Booker; Commonwealth Writers Prize), and Theft: A Love Story (2006). In 2005 appeared Wrong about Japan: A Father's Journey with His Son. He co-wrote the screenplays for Bliss (1985) and Until the End of the World (1990).
Peter Philip Carey|
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May 7, 1943 (age 63) Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia |
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| Occupation(s): | Novelist, Short story writer, Children book writer |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Writing period: | 1974-present |
| Debut work(s): |
Bliss (novel) The Big Bazoohley (children book) The Fat Man in History (short story) |
Peter Philip Carey (born May 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist.
Biography
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Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1943.
While working in advertising, Carey wrote and published a number of short stories, in magazines and newspapers such as Meanjin and Nation Review.
Carey started his own advertising agency in 1980, the Sydney-based McSpedden Carey Advertising Consultants, in partnership with Bani McSpedden. He married theatre director, Alison Summers, in 1985, and some time around 1990 sold his share of McSpedden Carey and moved to New York, during the writing of The Tax Inspector.
In 1998, he provoked further controversy by declining an invitation to meet Queen Elizabeth II after winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Jack Maggs, many believing his response to be motivated by his Australian Republican beliefs, though he cited family and personal reasons at the time.
Awards
Carey has won numerous literary awards, including:
| The Booker Prize | Illywhacker, shortlisted in 1985; Peter Carey and J M Coetzee are the only authors to have won the Booker Prize twice. |
| The Miles Franklin Award | Bliss, 1981; True History of the Kelly Gang, shortlisted in 2001 |
| The Age Book of the Year Award | Illywhacker, 1985; Jack Maggs, 1997 |
| The Commonwealth Writers Prize | Jack Maggs, 1998; True History of the Kelly Gang, 2001 |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Award | War Crimes, 1980; Bliss, 1982 |
| NBC Banjo Award | Bliss, 1982; Oscar and Lucinda, 1989 |
| FAW Barbara Ramsden Award | Illywhacker, 1985 |
| Vance Palmer Prize for fiction | Illywhacker, 1986 |
| Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award | Oscar and Lucinda, 1988 |
| South Australia Festival Award | Oscar and Lucinda, 1990 |
| Ditmar Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel | Illywhacker, 1986 |
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