Peter Carey - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	07-May-1943
Place of Birth	Bacchus Marsh (Australia, Victoria)
Nationality	Australia
Also know as	Peter Philip Carey
Profession	Writer, Novelist, Copywriter, Teacher, Author
Peter Philip Carey AO is an Australian novelist, known primarily for being one of only three writers to have won the Booker Prize twiceâ€”the others being J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. 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. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 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.

Awards by Peter Carey

Check all the awards nominated and won by Peter Carey.

2010

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	Parrot and Olivier in America
Man Booker Prize	Parrot and Olivier in America

2009

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Man Booker International Prize

2008

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
The Best of the Booker	Oscar and Lucinda

2007

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Man Booker International Prize

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award	True History of the Kelly Gang

2001

Man Booker Prize

Honored for : True History of the Kelly Gang

New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

Honored for : True History of the Kelly Gang

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize	True History of the Kelly Gang

1988

Man Booker Prize

Honored for : Oscar and Lucinda

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize	Oscar and Lucinda

1985

AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Honored for : Bliss

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize	Illywhacker
AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay	Bliss

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