Peter Carey biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Peter Carey

Author Name:

Peter Carey

Born As:

Peter Philip Carey

Other Names:

Peter Philip Carey

Born:

07 May 1943

Died:





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Selected Works:

Novels:

Bliss - 1981
Illywhacker - 1985
Oscar and Lucinda - 1988
The Tax Inspector - 1991
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith - 1994
Jack Maggs - 1997
True History of the Kelly Gang - 2000
My Life as a Fake - 2003
Theft: A Love Story - 2006
His Illegal Self - 2008

Children's Books:

The Big Bazoohley - 1995

Short story collections:

The Fat Man in History - 1974
War Crimes - 1979
Exotic Pleasures - 1990
Collected Stories - 1994 - collects all the works from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, as well as three previously uncollected works.

Short stories:

Peeling
American Dreams
Do You Love Me?
Crabs
Room No. 5 - Escribo
Report on the Shadow Industry
The Chance
Exotic Pleasures
Nature of Blue
The Last Days of a Famous Mime

Non fiction:

A Letter to Our Son - 1994
30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account - 2001
Letter From New York - 2001
Wrong about Japan - 2005                          
                          
Has been awarded three honorary degrees and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Australian Academy of Humanities and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.