Peter Carey

Illywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985, short-listed for the 1985 Booker Prize, and won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and The Age Book of the Year Award. It was also short-listed for the 1986 World Fantasy Award. The novel tells the story of Herbert Badgery, …

Jack Maggs is a novel by Australian novelist Peter Carey.

La ballata di Ned Kelly è un romanzo di Peter Carey del 2000. Il romanzo è un'autobiografia fittizia di Ned Kelly, celebre criminale australiano. Carey si allontana da quanto si conosce sulla vita di Kelly inventandogli un'amante e una figlia per la quale sta registrando la storia della sua vita mentre è in fuga dalla …

Wrong about Japan is a 2004 book by Peter Carey. It is subtitled A Father's Journey with his Son. Superficially a piece of travel writing, Wrong About Japan, is a partially fictionalized account of Carey's cultural investigation of Japan alongside his son, Charley.

My Life as a Fake is a 2003 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey based on the Ern Malley hoax of 1943, in which two poets created a fictitious poet, Ern Malley, and submitted poems in his name to the literary magazine Angry Penguins. The novel was inspired by the idea of "a 24-year-old hoax brought to life - …

Oscar e Lucinda è un romanzo di Peter Carey del 1988. Il romanzo ha vinto l'edizione di quell'anno del Booker Prize, ed è stato scelto tra i sei finalisti per il premio speciale Best of the Booker, istituito per celebrare il quarantesimo anniversario del premio. Il romanzo è parzialmente ispirato all'autobiografia del …

Parrot e Olivier in America è un romanzo di Peter Carey del 2010. Nello stesso anno, il libro venne selezionato tra i finalisti del Booker Prize.

His Illegal Self is a 2008 novel by Australian author Peter Carey. It was shortlisted for the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.