Biography
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. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for True History of the Kelly Gang. In May 2008, he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times, and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.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.
Filmography
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Movies 7
Writer 2
TV Shows 1
self 1
Producer 1
Director 1
Screenplay 1
Books That Made Us (2021)
True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
Riddle Room (2016)
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
REM: This Film Is On (1991)
Until the End of the World (1991)
Dead End Drive-In (1986)
Bliss (1985)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1943-05-07 (80 years old)
Birth NamePeter Philip Carey
Birth PlaceBacchus Marsh, Australia
CitizenshipsAustralia
AwardsFAW Barbara Ramsden Award, Officer of the Order of Australia, Colin Roderick Award, Bodley Medal, Ditmar Award, Man Booker Prize, Booker Prize, Miles Franklin Award, Miles Franklin Literary Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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