Peter Carey (1) (1943–)
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Peter Carey was born on May 7, 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia. His first two books, The Fat Man in History (1974) and War Crimes (1979), were short story collections. His first novel, Bliss, was published in 1982. At the time he was balancing his writing career with the operation of an visa mer advertising agency in Sydney, and his books were not generally known outside of Australia. He began to receive international attention when Illywhacker was published in 1985. He won the Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. His other works include The Tax Inspector, Parrot and Olivier in America, and The Chemistry of Tears. He also won the Miles Franklin Award three times. In 2015 he made the Australian Book Designers Association Award shortlist for his title Amnesia. This title also made the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlist. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) (2019) 26 exemplar
The Chance 4 exemplar
Report on the Shadow Industry 3 exemplar
The Last Days of a Famous Mime [short story] 1 exemplar
Thirteen moons 1 exemplar
The Fat Man in History [short story] 1 exemplar
A Windmill in the West [short story] 1 exemplar
Conversations with Unicorns 1 exemplar
The Puzzling Nature of Blue [short story] 1 exemplar
Peeling [short story] 1 exemplar
De Doder En De Danseres 1 exemplar
Joe (in Collected Stories) 1 exemplar
Close to the Sun 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 338 exemplar
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 115 exemplar
Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 25 exemplar
Oscar and Lucinda [1997 film] — Original book — 24 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Carey, Peter Philip
- Födelsedag
- 1943-05-07
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Australië
- Födelseort
- Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australië
- Bostadsorter
- Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Queensland, Australia
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA (visa alla 7)
Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia - Utbildning
- Geelong Grammar School
Monash University - Yrken
- short-story writer
novelist
advertising copywriter
creative writing teacher (New York University)
writing instructor (Princeton University)
director of MFA program (Hunter College) - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2016)
Order of Australia - Priser och utmärkelser
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1989)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2007, 2009) - Agent
- Amanda Urban (ICM)
- Kort biografi
- Peter Carey 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 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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Diskussioner
November 2015: Peter Carey i Monthly Author Reads (januari 2022)
Peter Carey's "Wrong About Japan" i Japanese Culture (februari 2010)
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