Peter Carey AKA Peter Philip Carey Born: 7-Feb-1943 Birthplace: Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: Australia Executive summary: Oscar and Lucinda Wife: Leigh Weetman (m. 1964) Wife: Alison Summers (m. 1985)
High School: Geelong Grammar School (1961) University: Monash University (dropped out)
Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang
Author of books:
The Fat Man in History (1974, short stories) War Crimes (1974, short stories) Bliss (1981, novel) Illywhacker (1985, novel) Oscar and Lucinda (1988, novel) Exotic Pleasures (1990, short stories) The Tax Inspector (1992, novel) Collected Stories (1994, short stories) A Letter to Our Son (1994) The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1995, novel) The Big Bazoohley (1995, juvenile) Jack Maggs (1997, novel) True History of the Kelly Gang (2000, novel) 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (2001) Letter From New York (2001) My Life as a Fake (2003, novel) Wrong about Japan (2005) Theft: A Love Story (2006, novel)
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