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Jul 18, 2024 · My Life as a Fake. True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. [1] It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year.
- Peter Carey
- 2000
Jul 11, 2024 · Peter Carey has essentially helped construct the external idea of what Australia is in the minds of people who don't live here through his fiction. I wanted to ask you, Sarah, about your response to his fiction, but also to fiction in general.
Jul 1, 2024 · Rankin’s friend Peter Carey, the New York based novelist and Booker Prize winner, has observed that spiritual concerns may not be shared in the Sydney suburbs of Rankin’s 1950s upbringing.
Jun 29, 2024 · It has been many years since I read any Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda, and I remember nothing of it. Perhaps because of that I was somewhat thrown by his Collected Stories. Not in the sense of how well-written they are, but rather the strange dystopian worlds many of them seem to inhabit. There is….
Jul 12, 2024 · The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". [1] . The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (1901).
Jul 1, 2024 · Well-known recipients of the prize include V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Iris Murdoch, J.M. Coetzee, A.S. Byatt, Kingsley Amis, Penelope Lively, Ben Okri, Michael Ondaatje, Ian McEwan, Peter Carey, Kiran Desai, and Hilary Mantel.
Jul 17, 2024 · Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. It is based on the 1988 Booker Prize -winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. [3]
