Peter Carey

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Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) 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 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.

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.

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Early life and career: 1943–1970

In 1943, Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Carey Motors, his parents' business, owned a GM dealership in Carey, England. He attended Bacchus Marsh State School from 1948 to 1953, then boarded Geelong Grammar School between 1954 and 1960, first in 1948 and 1960. Carey started studying at Monash University in Melbourne in 1961, majoring in chemistry and zoology, but was forced to stop studying due to a car accident and a lack of interest. He met his first wife, Leigh Weetman, who was studying German and philosophy and who had previously dropped out, while studying German and philosophy at the University.

He began working in advertising in 1962. Between 1962 and 1967, he was employed by various Melbourne companies, including on Volkswagen and Lindeman's Wine campaigns. "I didn't get an education until I worked in marketing with people like Barry Oakley and Morris Lurie," Bruce Petty said.

During this period, he read extensively, particularly Samuel Beckett, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and Gabriel Garca Márquez, and began writing on his own, receiving his first rejection slip in 1964, the year he married Weetman. He wrote five books in the first few years, including Contacts (1964-1965), Here, Ends Here (1965-1969), Wog (1969), and Adventures on Board the Marie [sic] Celeste (1971). None of them had been revealed. The Futility Machine was accepted by Sun Books but did not go forward with publication, and Adventures on board the Marie Celeste was accepted by Outback Press before Carey was withdrawn by Carey himself. The Fryer Library at the University of Queensland holds these and other unpublished manuscripts from the period — including twenty-one short stories.

Carey's only publications during the 1960s were "Contacts" (a short excerpt from the unpublished book of the same name) and "She Wakes" (a short story in Australian Letters, 1967). Carey and Weetman left Australia with "a certain degree of self-hatred" while traveling through Europe and Iran before settling in London in 1968, where Carey continued to write highly praised advertising copy and unpublished fiction.

Middle career: 1970–1990

Carey, who returned to Australia in 1970, did a bit of advertising in Melbourne and Sydney. He continued writing and eventually broke with editors, publishing short stories in magazines and newspapers such as Meanjin and Country Review. The bulk of these were collected in his first book, The Fat Man in History, which appeared in 1974. Carey left Balmain, Sydney, to work for Grey Advertising in the same year.

Carey and his late husband, Margot Hutcheson, lived in Yandina, north of Brisbane, in 1976 and 1980s. He stayed with Grey, writing in Yandina for three weeks, before spending the fourth week at the Sydney office. He wrote the bulk of the War Crimes (1979), as well as Bliss (1981), his first published novel.

In 1980, Carey established his own advertising company, McSpedden Carey Advertising Consultants, based in Sydney, Australia, in collaboration with Bani McSpedden. Leigh Weetman, a long-distance husband, requested a divorce in 1980 so she could remarry, and Peter accepted. He moved to Bellingen, New South Wales, in 1981. Illywhacker, a young man from 1985, was published in 1985. Alison Summers, a theatre director, married him in the same year. Illusion, a stage musical Carey co-written with Mike Mullins and Martin Armiger, was performed at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts in 1986, and a studio cast recording of the musical was nominated.

With the release of Oscar and Lucinda (1988), which won the Booker McConnell Prize (as it was then known), as well as international recognition, Carey's career was shattered. Carey said that the novel was inspired in part by his stay in Bellingen:

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