The novel that thrust Carey on to the international scene followed in 1988. Peter Carey's next novel, Illywacker (1985), featured a 139-year-old central character Herbert Badgery (the title is an Australian slang expression meaning 'con man'). His next book, Bliss, a darkly comic novel, won Australia's foremost literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, in 1982 and was made into a movie three years later. A further short story collection, War Crimes, was released in 1979 and won several awards. The Fat Man in History (1974), his first published book, was a collection of short stories which received wide critical acclaim. In 1974 he joined Bani McSpedden in Sydney and opened a highly successful advertising agency, McSpedden Carey Advertising Consultancy. He attended one of the country's leading private schools, Geelong GrammarĪnd later studied science at Monash University, Melbourne.Ĭarey began copywriting in advertising agencies, winning a reputation with award-winning campaigns. Peter Carey was born at Bacchus Marsh, thirty miles west of Melbourne, Australia in 1943. Peter Carey Peter Carey (1943 - ) Australian Short Story Writer and Novelist.
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