Peter Carey

See also: Carey

Peter Carey is an Australian writer (born the May 7th 1943 with Bacchus Marsh in Australia). He lived successively with Melbourne, London, Sidney then New York. He received twice the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda (1988) and for the true story of the gang Kelly (2001, Prix of the Best foreign book).

Following an accident of car, Peter Carey stopped his studies in chemistry and zoology in Monash University de Melbourne and began his career in the sector from publicity. As from 1964, while continuing his community activities in publicity, Peter Carey wrote and published news in Australian reviews of literature. The majority of these short stories were joined together in a volume entitled The Fat Man in History which was published in 1974. In 1980 in Sidney, Peter Carey created his own advertizing agency then it resold his shares in the years 1990. In 1998, Peter Carey caused a polemic by refusing an invitation of the queen Elizabeth II to give a British literary prize to him, the the Commonwealth Writers Prize . In addition, Peter Carey is the joint author of the scenario of the film Until the end of the world of the German scenario writer Wim Wenders. He is teaching in City University off New York.

Works translated into French

Oscar and Lucinda , Plon, 1990.
the Inspector , Plon, 1993.
a cadger ( Illywhacker ), Plon, 1995.
the Way of the Paradise , Editions of Cat-like, 1996.
Jack Maggs , Plon, 1999.
singular Life of Tristan Smith , Plon, 2001.
True story of the Gang Kelly , Plon, 2003 (price of the Best Book Foreigner 2003).
My life of impostor , Plon, 2005.
With the country of the mangas with my son , Hoebeke, 2006.
High flight: history of love , Christian Bourgeois, 2007

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