Peter Philip Carey (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. 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. He has also won the Miles Franklin Award three times. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and was, for nineteen years, 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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Fiction, Australia, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, psychological, New York Times reviewed, History, London (england), fiction, Travel, Criminals, fiction, Description and travel, Fathers and sons, Fiction, historical, Social life and customs, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, general, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, science fiction, general, Friendship, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Mothers and sons, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Artists, Artists, fiction, Brothers, fictionPlaces
Australia, United States, America, London (England), Malaysia, England, France, Japan, London, Queensland, Sydney (N.S.W.), Great Britain, Indonesia, Toronto (Ont.)People
Peter Carey (1943-), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), Ned Kelly (1855-1880), Antoine Auguste Joseph Payen (1792-1853), Henry C. Brandling (1818-), Henry C. Brandling (b. 1818)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL194885A
- ISNI: 000000012147668X
- Library of Congress Names: n80049806
- VIAF: 110569724
- Wikidata: Q313254
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q313254
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- Peter Philip Carey
- Peter Stafford Carey
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