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Author Information: Peter Carey

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Biography:

Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943 and now lives in New York City with his family. The author of seven previous novels and a collection of stories, Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book twice, and the Booker Prize twice -- for Oscar and Lucinda and for True History of the Kelly Gang, which was also a finalist for the 2002 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Collections:

Fat Man in History, the (1974)

Anthologies:

Sudden Fiction International (1989)
Art of the Story, the (1999)

Novels:

Bliss (1981)
Illywhacker (1985)
Oscar and Lucinda (1988)
Tax Inspector, the (1991)
Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, the (1994)
Big Bazoohley, the (1995)
Jack Maggs (1998)
True History of the Kelly Gang (2000)
My Life as a Fake (2003)
Theft (2006)
His Illegal Self (2008)
Parrot and Olivier in America (2010)

Series:

Sudden Fiction

Links:

petercareybooks.com :: Author's website