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| Name: |
Peter Carey | | Birth Date: |
1943 | | Place of Birth: |
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia | | Nationality: |
Australian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, author |
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 Biography of Peter Carey
944 words, approx. 3 pages
 Australian writer Peter Carey (born 1943) won over twelve awards and received two major award nominations for his works of fiction (short stories, novels, and film adaptations) between 1981-1994. Carey was one of the first Australian writers to create... summary from source:
 Biography of Peter Carey
4,620 words, approx. 15 pages
 Peter Carey is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished and successful Australian novelists of recent decades and is one of a handful--along with Thomas Keneally, David Malouf, and Tim Winton--who command an international reputation. Carey's... 
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 Peter Carey Quotes
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Peter Carey (born 1943), Australian novelist and writer. Winner of several literary awards (twice Booker Prize winner, three times Miles Franklin Award winner). Sourced Illywhacker (1985) Wikipedia has an article about: Illywhacker Novel, short-listed...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Peter Carey Information
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Peter Carey may refer to: Peter Carey (novelist), (b. 1943), Australian novelist Peter Carey (umpire), Australian rules umpire Peter Carey (footballer), Australian rules player for...
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 Australian Literary Studies Peter Carey. (book reviews)
10/01/1997: 1,420 words, approx. 5 pages By Graham Huggan. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Paper $19.95. Does any internationally regarded Australian writer have a more unsettled reputation than Peter Carey? This is not simply a matter, as Graham Huggan says in his study, Peter Carey, of the author's... summary from source:
World of Hibernia Peter Carey: retrieving the past.
06/22/2001: 1,484 words, approx. 5 pages Irish hearts have always managed to reserve some space for the Australian bush outlaw Ned Kelly who lived fast and died young (or so the story goes. Kelly, born of Irish stock, certainly died young. It seems too easy to forget that he... summary from source:
 AP News Achebe wins Booker Prize for fiction
6/13/2007: 606 words, approx. 2 pagesNigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first... summary from source:
AP News NLRB sets window for decertification
10/2/2007: 405 words, approx. 1 pagesEmployees who don't want to be unionized have 45 days to build up support for a government-monitored decertification vote even if a company agrees to a card check campaign and the union wins, the National Labor Relations Board said Tuesday.In a 3-2 vote, the NLRB...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Robert Ross
6,482 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Ross focuses on Carey's short stories as he speculates on the influence of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's works on Carey's artistic development.
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Critical Essay by Christer Larsson
5,360 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Larsson argues that, despite his label as a postmodern writer, Carey frequently invokes the use of prolepses and foreshadowing in his novels, giving the reader a discernible end to his stories and providing a sense of closure not typically experienced in the postmodern genre.
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Critical Essay by Graeme Turner
4,996 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, an earlier draft of which was presented at the conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature in July 1986, Turner outlines the major characteristics of Carey's fiction and discusses Carey's use of "American" formal devices to create literature with Australian themes.
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