Peter Carey

Peter Carey was born on 7 May 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, in Victoria. A boarder at Geelong Grammar School, he began science studies at Monash University, which he abandoned, and went into advertising, in Australia and then in London from 1968; in 1980 he founded an agency in Sydney with Bani McSpedden. He then settled in New York, where he teaches writing at New York University. He has twice received the Booker Prize, in 1988 and in 2001.

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• NovelBlissPeter Carey · 1981Literature