Peter Carey Life Stories, Books, & Links


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Picture of Peter Carey, winner of Booker Prize in 2001 for his novel True History of the Kelly Gang; twentieth century Australian Literature

Peter Carey (1943 - )

Category: Australian Literature

Born: 1943
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia

Related authors:
A. B. Paterson

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1/26/1788		Australia, Carey, the Kelly Gang On this day in 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip brought the first British convict ships to anchor in Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Over the next eighty years 825 such ships would bring 160,000 men and women to serve their "transportation" sentence; from this history has come "Australia Day" and a range of literature, including Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning True History of the Kelly Gang.

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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account travel, non-fiction
Bliss fiction
Fat Man in History short stories
Illywhacker fiction
Jack Maggs fiction
My Life as a Fake fiction
Oscar and Lucinda fiction
The Tax Inspector fiction
The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith fiction
True History of the Kelly Gang fiction

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Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter's Carey's Fiction by Anthony J. Hassall analysis and criticism
Peter Carey by Bruce Woodcock analysis and criticism

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Peter Carey -- Official Site
The official site has a range of interviews, plus the usual -- latest news, a complete bibliography, a short biography, etc.

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