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Australian novelist

Peter Philip CareyAO (born 7 May 1943) recap an Australian novelist.

He task one of only five writers to have won the Agent Prize twice—the others being List. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood.^[1] Carey won his first Agent Prize in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, and won top second Booker Prize in 2001, for True History of probity Kelly Gang.^[2] In May 2008, he was nominated for primacy Best of the Booker Prize.^[3]

Carey has won the Miles Historiographer Award three times, and stick to frequently named as Australia's fee contender for the Nobel Guerdon in Literature.^[4]

In addition to vocabulary fiction, he collaborated on illustriousness screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and was, for nineteen years, executive jumped-up of the Master of Constricted Arts in Creative Writing syllabus at Hunter College, part familiar the City University of In mint condition York.^[5]

Early life and career: 1943–1970

Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1943.

Tiara parents ran a Holden franchise, Carey Motors. He attended Bacchus Marsh State School from 1948 to 1953, then boarded move Geelong Grammar School between 1954 and 1960. In 1961, Carey enrolled in a science ratio at the new Monash Asylum in Melbourne, majoring in alchemy and zoology, but cut wreath studies short because of clean up car accident and a absence of interest.

It was go off university that he met monarch first wife, Leigh Weetman, who was studying German and thinking, and who also dropped out.^[6]

In 1962, he began to drudgery in advertising. He was busy by various Melbourne agencies betwixt 1962 and 1967, including concept campaigns for Volkswagen and Lindeman's Wine.^[7] His advertising work bow him into contact with aged writers who introduced him anticipate recent European and American fiction: "I didn't really start exploit an education until I touched in advertising with people choose Barry Oakley and Morris Lurie—and Bruce Petty had an nerve centre next door."^[8]

During this time, oversight read widely, particularly the contortion of Samuel Beckett, William Novelist, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, coupled with Gabriel García Márquez, and began writing on his own, acceptance his first rejection slip deck 1964, the same year take steps married Weetman.^[9] Over the catch on few years he wrote fivesome novels—Contacts (1964–1965), Starts Here, Remnants Here (1965–1967), The Futility Machine (1966–1967), Wog (1969), and Adventures on Board the Marie [sic] Celeste (1971).

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None many them were published. Sun Books accepted The Futility Machine on the other hand did not proceed with revise, and Adventures on Board decency Marie Celeste was accepted overtake Outback Press before being reserved by Carey himself.^[10] These prosperous other unpublished manuscripts from rectitude period—including twenty-one short stories—are consequential held by the Fryer Aggregation at the University of Queensland.^[11]

Carey's only publications during the Decennary were "Contacts" (a short short version from the unpublished novel appreciated the same name, in Under Twenty-Five: An Anthology, 1966) come to rest "She Wakes" (a short play a part, in Australian Letters, 1967).

Turn the end of the 10, Carey and Weetman abandoned State with "a certain degree observe self-hatred",^[12] travelling through Europe elitist Iran before settling in Writer in 1968, where Carey lengthened to write highly regarded attention copy and unpublished fiction.

Middle career: 1970–1990

Returning to Australia answer 1970, Carey once again exact advertising work in Melbourne come first Sydney.

He also kept prose, and gradually broke through assort editors, publishing short stories unfailingly magazines and newspapers such renovation Meanjin and Nation Review. Bossy of these were collected check his first book, The Obese Man in History, which arised in 1974. In the identical year, Carey moved to Balmain in Sydney to work commandeer Grey Advertising.

In 1976, Carey moved to Queensland and husbandly an alternative community named Lightsome in Yandina, north of Brisbane, with his new partner, depiction painter Margot Hutcheson, with whom he lived in the Decennary and 1980s. He remained industrial action Grey, writing in Yandina round out three weeks, then spending rendering fourth week at the medium in Sydney.

It was by means of this time that he give up most of the stories serene in War Crimes (1979), in that well as Bliss (1981), her majesty first published novel.^[13]

Carey started rulership own advertising agency in 1980, the Sydney-based McSpedden Carey Business Consultants, in partnership with Bani McSpedden.

After many years incessantly separation, Leigh Weetman asked apply for a divorce in 1980 inexpressive that she could remarry stomach Peter agreed. In 1981, bankruptcy moved to Bellingen in blue New South Wales. There noteworthy wrote Illywhacker, published in 1985.^[14] In the same year purify married theatre director Alison Summers.

Illusion, a stage musical Carey wrote with Mike Mullins distinguished composer Martin Armiger, was unabated at the 1986 Adelaide Celebration of the Arts and skilful studio cast recording of magnanimity musical was nominated for uncluttered 1987 ARIA Award (for which Carey as lyricist was nominated).^[15][16]

The decade—and the Australian phase commuter boat Carey's career—culminated with the reporting of Oscar and Lucinda (1988), which won the Booker McConnell Prize (as it was so known) and brought the penny-a-liner international recognition.

Carey explained rove the novel was inspired, assume part, by his time display Bellingen:

I was living epoxy resin Bellingen in the country. Illustrious the little church was condemn the road, and they desired to take it away, zip: and I looked at avoid landscape and I thought – only 200 years ago that was a landscape that was full of Aboriginal stories.

Like so I thought about a split second when that church that Berserk knew, which was being purposeful from my landscape, might take arrived. I wanted it weather arrive intact, whole. And Frenzied thought it would come abundance a barge. And, this wreckage a totally irrational thought, it’s like a dream. I called for this church, a wooden religion, just what I saw, unembellished church in that valley, ensue come along the Bellingen Jet on a barge gliding choose a dream into the landscape.^[17]

Move to New York: 1990–present

Carey put on the market his share of McSpedden Carey and in 1990 moved respect Alison Summers and their unconventional behaviour to New York, where noteworthy took a job teaching inventive writing at New York Creation.

He later said that In mint condition York would not have antiquated his first choice of portentous to live, and that poignant there was his wife's idea.^[18] Carey and Summers divorced extract 2005 after a four-year separation.^[19] Carey is now married obtain the British-born publisher Frances Coady.^[20][21][22]

The Tax Inspector (1991), begun resource Australia, was the first spot on he completed in the Leagued States.

It was followed shy The Unusual Life of Character Smith (1994), a fable pen which he explored the arrogance between Australia and America, covert in the novel as "Efica" and "Voorstand". This is well-ordered relationship that has preoccupied him throughout his career, going rein in to Bliss (1981), Illywhacker (1985), and the early short folkloric.

Nevertheless, Carey continued to harden his fiction primarily in Continent and remained diffident about handwriting explicitly on American themes. Increase by two a piece on True Characteristics of the Kelly Gang (2001), Mel Gussow reported that:

Periodically he has thought about print an American-based novel, and noteworthy had started one dealing assort litigation.

But he put stage set aside for Ned Kelly. Explaining why he continues to at the bottom of the sea most of his books small fry Australia, he recalled that adjourn of his students said, "When you change countries you lay bare your peripheral vision." In think about it sense, his view of U.s. is still limited. Writing have a view of Australia—its history and its heroes—his perspective is wide and deep.^[23]

It was only after nearly decades in the United States that he embarked on Parrot and Olivier in America (2010), loosely based on events unfailingly the life of Alexis present Tocqueville.

Carey says "Tocqueville unlock a door I could end. I saw the present overlook the past. It was tender, imaginable."^[24] Carey continues to present his canvas; in his different, The Chemistry of Tears (2012), "contemporary London is brought confidingly in touch with ... put in order 19th-century Germany redolent of rendering Brothers Grimm".^[25]

Controversies

In 1998, Carey was accused of snubbing Queen Elizabeth II by declining an proposition to meet her after sugared the Commonwealth Writers Prize take care of Jack Maggs (1997).

While Carey is a republican, in rectitude Australian sense, he insists renounce no offence was intended:

What happened, he explains, was go wool-gathering he had already been bolster England recently for a studious festival; he is booked financial assistance another trip soon, and confidential been travelling so much delay he asked the prize organisers, "Would it be possible object to see Her Majesty when Berserk was actually in London?" "They thought it would be make easier just to cancel than cooperation me to ask Her Stateliness to do that.

Then try to make an impression this stuff started going approve in English tabloids."^[26]

The meeting plain-spoken eventually take place, with rectitude Queen remarking, according to Carey, "I believe you had on the rocks little trouble getting here."^[27]

The sad circumstances of Carey's breakup get Alison Summers received publicity (largely in Australia) in 2006 conj at the time that Theft: A Love Story comed, depicting the toxic relationship 'tween its protagonist, Butcher Bones, tube his ex-wife, known only primate "the Plaintiff".^[28]

In April 2015 good taste, alongside Michael Ondaatje, Francine Text, Teju Cole, Rachel Kushner plus Taiye Selasi, withdrew as fare hosts from the PEN Indweller Center gala in which honesty French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was to be awarded spruce "Freedom of Expression Courage" award.^[29] Carey, a former Vice Chair of PEN, was one behove 204 PEN^[30] members who mark a letter stating that …An expression of views, however distressing, is certainly not to put right answered by violence or assassination.

However, there is a depreciative difference between staunchly supporting verbalization that violates the acceptable, president enthusiastically rewarding such expression. Writers including John Berger, Deborah Eisenberg, Eve Ensler and Keith Gessen all^[31] abhorred the murders decide objecting to the PEN executive's unilateral decision to give magnanimity award.

Awards and distinctions

Carey has been awarded three honorary degrees.^[32] He has been elected unornamented Fellow of the Royal The upper crust of Literature (1989), an Discretionary Fellow of the Australian Faculty of the Humanities (2001),^[33] efficient Member of the American College of Arts and Sciences (2003),^[34] and a Member of say publicly American Academy of Arts alight Letters (2016),^[35] which has additionally awarded him its Harold Run Vursell Memorial Award (2012).^[36][37] Occupy 2010, he appeared on duo Australian postage stamps in trim series dedicated to "Australian Legends".^[38] On 11 June 2012, Carey was named an Officer rule the Order of Australia get on to "distinguished service to literature introduction a novelist, through international plug of the Australian identity, primate a mentor to emerging writers."^[39] And in 2014, Carey was awarded an honorary Doctor notice Letters (honoris causa) by Sydney University.^[40] In 2021, Carey was named by Carnegie Corporation noise New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Award.^[41][42]

Carey has won numerous literary distinction, including:

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an yearbook awards ceremony that recognises desert, innovation, and achievement across describe genres of Australian music.

They commenced in 1987.

Bibliography

Novels

Short action collections

• The Fat Man in History (1974)
  • "Crabs"
  • "Peeling"
  • "She Wakes"
  • "Life and Transience bloodshed in the Southside Pavilion"
  • "Room Rebuff. 5 (Escribo)"
  • "Happy Story"
  • "A Windmill wrench the West"
  • "Withdrawal"
  • "Report on the Cover Industry"
  • "Conversations with Unicorns"
  • "American Dreams"
  • "The Round Man in History"
• War Crimes (1979)
  • "The Journey of a Lifetime"
  • "Do You Love Me?"
  • "The Uses sun-up Williamson Wood"
  • "The Last Days nominate a Famous Mime"
  • "A Schoolboy Prank"
  • "The Chance"
  • "Fragrance of Roses"
  • "The Puzzling Be reconciled of Blue"
  • "Ultra-Violet Light"
  • "Kristu-Du"
  • "He Found Breather in Late Summer"
  • "Exotic Pleasures"
  • "War Crimes"

Stories from Carey's first two collections have been repackaged in The Fat Man in History nearby Other Stories (1980), Exotic Pleasures (1990), and Collected Stories (1994); the last also includes triad previously uncollected stories: "Joe" (Australian New Writing, 1973), "A Bundle Dollars Worth of Amphetamines" (Nation Review, 1975), and "Concerning grandeur Greek Tyrant" (The Tabloid Interpretation Pocket Book, 1978).

Uncollected wee stories

• "Contacts" (Under Twenty-Five: An Anthology, 1966)
• "Eight Parts of a Whole" (Manic Magazine, 1970)
• "Interview with Yourself" (Manic Magazine, 1970)
• "Structure" (Manic Magazine, 1970)
• "I Know You Can Talk" (Stand Magazine, 1975)
• "The Mad Mass King" (Living Daylights, 1975)
• "The Rose" (Nation Review, 1976)
• "The Cosmic Pragmatist" (Nation Review, 1977)
• "The Pleasure Bird" (Australian Playboy, 1979)
• "An Abandoned Chapter" (Overland, 1997)

Contributed chapters

• "A small memorial" In: Stories of Manhood: Journeys be converted into the Hidden Hearts of Men edited by Steve Biddulph (2009)^[44]

Juvenile fiction

• The Big Bazoohley: A Composition for Children (1995)

Non-fiction

Screenplays

Stage

• Illusion (1986, farm Mike Mullins and Martin Armiger)

Adaptations

References

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