Peter Carey (1) (1943–)
Forfatter af Den sande historie om Kelly-banden
For andre forfattere med navnet Peter Carey, se skeln forfatterne siden.
Om forfatteren
Peter Carey was born on May 7, 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia. His first two books, The Fat Man in History (1974) and War Crimes (1979), were short story collections. His first novel, Bliss, was published in 1982. At the time he was balancing his writing career with the operation of an vis mere advertising agency in Sydney, and his books were not generally known outside of Australia. He began to receive international attention when Illywhacker was published in 1985. He won the Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. His other works include The Tax Inspector, Parrot and Olivier in America, and The Chemistry of Tears. He also won the Miles Franklin Award three times. In 2015 he made the Australian Book Designers Association Award shortlist for his title Amnesia. This title also made the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlist. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: © Marion Ettlinger
Værker af Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) (2019) 28 eksemplarer
The Chance 4 eksemplarer
Report on the Shadow Industry 3 eksemplarer
The Puzzling Nature of Blue [short story] 1 eksemplar
Thirteen moons 1 eksemplar
The Fat Man in History [short story] 1 eksemplar
A Windmill in the West [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Last Days of a Famous Mime [short story] 1 eksemplar
De Doder En De Danseres 1 eksemplar
Peeling [short story] 1 eksemplar
Close to the Sun 1 eksemplar
My Life as a Fake [first chapter limited proof] 1 eksemplar
Joe (in Collected Stories) 1 eksemplar
Conversations with Unicorns 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Bidragyder — 347 eksemplarer
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Bidragyder — 117 eksemplarer
Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (1993) — Bidragyder — 26 eksemplarer
Oscar and Lucinda [1997 film] — Original book — 24 eksemplarer
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Carey, Peter Philip
- Fødselsdato
- 1943-05-07
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Australië
- Fødested
- Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australië
- Bopæl
- Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Queensland, Australia
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA (vis alle 7)
Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia - Uddannelse
- Geelong Grammar School
Monash University - Erhverv
- short-story writer
novelist
advertising copywriter
creative writing teacher (New York University)
writing instructor (Princeton University)
director of MFA program (Hunter College) - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2016)
Order of Australia - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1989)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2007, 2009) - Agent
- Amanda Urban (ICM)
- Kort biografi
- Peter Carey is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda, and won for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang. In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. 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.
Medlemmer
Discussions
November 2015: Peter Carey i Monthly Author Reads (januar 2022)
Peter Carey's "Wrong About Japan" i Japanese Culture (februar 2010)
Anmeldelser
Lister
Booker Prize (5)
2000s decade (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Review 1 (1)
Victorian Period (1)
Shaking a Leg (1)
METAfiction (1)
Parallel Novels (1)
Five star books (1)
to get (1)
Folio Society (1)
Unread books (2)
Franklit (2)
A Novel Cure (3)
My TBR (1)
To Read (1)
Hæderspriser
Måske også interessante?
Associated Authors
Statistikker
- Værker
- 43
- Also by
- 18
- Medlemmer
- 22,761
- Popularitet
- #930
- Vurdering
- 3.7
- Anmeldelser
- 527
- ISBN
- 777
- Sprog
- 26
- Udvalgt
- 73
Men det bliver ikke rigtig 'nogens' historie. Che og Dial virker begge så flagrede i mine læsebriller, så man aldrig rigtig tror på nogen af dem som levende mennesker. Dertil kommer, at selve historien er så usandsynlig, at Carey ikke får mig til at tro på den, selv om jeg forsøgte at sætte mig ud over 'sandsynlighedskriteriet'.
Det virker lidt som om, at Carey ikke har kunnet holde fingrene fra tasterne i en ferie, men heller ikke som han rigtig har gidet planlægge sit plot og sine personer. Det er under alle omstændigheder den dårligste bog af Peter Carey, som jeg har læst.… (mere)