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  1. Notable awards. Booker Prize. 1988, 2001. Signature. 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 ...

  2. Enter Peter Carey, our world-renowned novelist and Booker Prize winner based in New York. As a writer, he has been bold and brave before - from his fabulous short fiction in the '70s through to his remodelling of Australian history with Illywhacker and Oscar and Lucinda.

  3. Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943. He claims his birthplace of Bacchus Marsh had a population of 4,000. This fact should probably be checked. He was educated at the local state school until the age of eleven and then became a boarder at Geelong Grammar School. He was a student there between 1954 and 1960 — after Rupert Murdoch had ...

  4. A Long Way From Home 2017 the story | jackets | reviews | profile | video Amnesia 2014 the story | jackets | reviews | video | bbc tv The Chemistry Of Tears 2012 the story | jackets | reviews | profile | bbc tv Parrot and Olivier in America 2009 the story | jackets | reviews

  5. Mar 10, 2018 · Purchase. In his latest book, A Long Way From Home, Australian novelist Peter Carey takes on his country's racist past, but he gets there by a circuitous route. The book begins as a kind of madcap ...

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  6. Peter Carey has 100 books on Goodreads with 187666 ratings. Peter Carey’s most popular book is True History of the Kelly Gang.

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  8. Australian novelist who was awarded the Booker Prize in 1988 and 2001. Peter Carey was born and raised in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Educated at Australia's elite Geelong and Timbertop schools, Carey failed to obtain his science degree at Monash University. However, on entering the advertising industry, he displayed a precocious talent for ...

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