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width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0><font size=+3 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Peter Carey</b></font><p><b>AKA</b> Peter Philip Carey<p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/555/000106237/" class=proflink>7-Feb</a>-<a href="/lists/942/000105627/" class=proflink>1943</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/647/000196059/" class=proflink>Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia</a><br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> Novelist<p><b>Nationality:</b> Australia<br><b>Executive summary:</b> <i>Oscar and Lucinda</i><p><b>Wife:</b> Leigh Weetman (m. 1964)<br><b>Wife:</b> Alison Summers (m. 1985)<br><p> High School: Geelong Grammar School (1961)<br> University: <a href="/edu/290/000110957/">Monash University (dropped out)</a><br><p> <a href="/honors/248/000073029/">Man Booker Prize for Fiction</a> 1988 for <i>Oscar and Lucinda</i><br> <a href="/honors/248/000073029/">Man Booker Prize for Fiction</a> 2001 for <i>True History of the Kelly Gang</i><br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>The Fat Man in History</i> (<tt>1974</tt>, short stories)<br><i>War Crimes</i> (<tt>1974</tt>, short stories)<br><i>Bliss</i> (<tt>1981</tt>, novel)<br><i>Illywhacker</i> (<tt>1985</tt>, novel)<br><i>Oscar and Lucinda</i> (<tt>1988</tt>, novel)<br><i>Exotic Pleasures</i> (<tt>1990</tt>, short stories)<br><i>The Tax Inspector</i> (<tt>1992</tt>, novel)<br><i>Collected Stories</i> (<tt>1994</tt>, short stories)<br><i>A Letter to Our Son</i> (<tt>1994</tt>)<br><i>The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith</i> (<tt>1995</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Big Bazoohley</i> (<tt>1995</tt>, juvenile)<br><i>Jack Maggs</i> (<tt>1997</tt>, novel)<br><i>True History of the Kelly Gang</i> (<tt>2000</tt>, novel)<br><i>30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account</i> (<tt>2001</tt>)<br><i>Letter From New York</i> (<tt>2001</tt>)<br><i>My Life as a Fake</i> (<tt>2003</tt>, novel)<br><i>Wrong about Japan</i> (<tt>2005</tt>)<br><i>Theft: A Love 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