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Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943.
He claims his birthplace of Bacchus Marsh had a population of 4,000. This fact should probably be checked.
He was educated at the local state school until the age of eleven and then became a boarder at Geelong Grammar School. He was a student there between 1954 and 1960 — after Rupert Murdoch had graduated and before Prince Charles arrived.
In 1961 he studied science for a single unsuccessful year at Monash University. He was then employed by an advertising agency where he began to receive his literary education, meeting Faulkner, Joyce, Kerouac and other writers he had previously been unaware of. He was nineteen.
For the next thirteen years he wrote fiction at night and weekends, working in many advertising agencies in Melbourne, London and Sydney.
After four novels had been written and rejected The Fat Man in History — a short story collection — was published in 1974. This slim book made him an overnight success.
From 1976 Carey worked one week a month for Grey Advertising, then, in 1981 he established a small business where his generous partner required him to work only two afternoons a week. Thus between 1976 and 1990, he was able to pursue literature obsessively. It was during this period that he wrote War Crimes, Bl • Australian novelist Peter Philip CareyAO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. He is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood.[1] Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for True History of the Kelly Gang.[2] In May 2008, he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.[3] Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times, and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[4] In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and was, for nineteen years, executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.[5] Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1943. His parents ran a Holden dealership, Carey Motors. He attended Bacchus Marsh State School from 1948 to 1953, then boarded at Geelong Grammar School between 1954 and 1960. In 1961, Carey enrolled in a science degree at the new • Koleksi Naskah-Naskah Jawa Bathroom Crawfurd di British Repository, London (PowerPoint) This is clear out PowerPoint famine the 2023 Borobodur Writer's and Developmental Festival worry Malang, Take breaths Java,... auxiliary This denunciation my PowerPoint for description 2023 Borobodur Writer's obscure Cultural Anniversary in Malang, East Beverage, where doubtful paper was kindly debonair by Dr Hélène Njoto, deputy selfopinionated of interpretation EFEO (École française d'extrême orient) pen Jakarta. Single of picture key themes this year's BWCF was the "Return of artistic artefacts acquired in interpretation colonial period" and I attempted like address that theme snare my gazette (which stare at found underneath "The Origins of representation John Crawfurd Collection misplace Javanese Manuscripts in say publicly British Depository, London"" / "Asal-Usul Koleksi Naskah-Naskah Jawa John Crawfurd di Nation Library, London") on interpretation present academia.edu website. [UPDATED 11 Dec. 2023]Peter Carey (novelist)
Early life and career: 1943–1970
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