Peter Carey (novelist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Australian novelist
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Place of Birth: Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
About Peter Carey (novelist)
- Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist.
- Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Carey 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 for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang.
- In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
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