Peter Carey (1) (1943–)
Autor de La verdadera historia de la banda de Kelly
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Sobre El Autor
Peter Carey was born on May 7, 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia. His first two books, The Fat Man in History (1974) and War Crimes (1979), were short story collections. His first novel, Bliss, was published in 1982. At the time he was balancing his writing career with the operation of an mostrar más advertising agency in Sydney, and his books were not generally known outside of Australia. He began to receive international attention when Illywhacker was published in 1985. He won the Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. His other works include The Tax Inspector, Parrot and Olivier in America, and The Chemistry of Tears. He also won the Miles Franklin Award three times. In 2015 he made the Australian Book Designers Association Award shortlist for his title Amnesia. This title also made the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlist. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) (2019) 31 copias, 1 reseña
The Chance 4 copias
Thirteen moons 1 copia
Peeling [short story] 1 copia
Close to the Sun 1 copia
Joe (in Collected Stories) 1 copia
Conversations with Unicorns 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 352 copias, 6 reseñas
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuidor — 118 copias, 3 reseñas
Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (1993) — Contribuidor — 27 copias, 1 reseña
Oscar and Lucinda (videorecording) — Original book — 24 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Carey, Peter Philip
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1943-05-07
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Australië
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australië
- Lugares de residencia
- Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Queensland, Australia
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA (mostrar todos 7)
Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia - Educación
- Geelong Grammar School
Monash University - Ocupaciones
- short-story writer
novelist
advertising copywriter
creative writing teacher (New York University)
writing instructor (Princeton University)
director of MFA program (Hunter College) - Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2016)
Order of Australia - Premios y honores
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1989)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2007, 2009) - Agente
- Amanda Urban (ICM)
- Biografía breve
- Peter Carey is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda, and won for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang. In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
Miembros
Debates
November 2015: Peter Carey en Monthly Author Reads (Enero 2022)
Peter Carey's "Wrong About Japan" en Japanese Culture (Febrero 2010)
Reseñas
Catherine Gehrig, conservadora del Museo Swinburne de Londres, ve cómo su vida se derrumba tras la muerte de su compañero de trabajo y amante de los últimos trece años. Su último correo: "Besos en los dedos de los pies", llega a su buzón cuando él ya ha muerto, y Catherine se derrumba por la carga añadida de tener que esconder sus sentimientos. Pero su jefe, quien conoce el secreto, le encarga un proyecto que la mantendrá alejada del escrutinio de los demás: debe volver a poner en funcionamiento un autómata celosamente guardado en el museo.… (más)
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To Read (1)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 43
- También por
- 18
- Miembros
- 22,906
- Popularidad
- #920
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 525
- ISBNs
- 778
- Idiomas
- 25
- Favorito
- 73
En su última novela, Robo: una historia de amor, Carey lleva a cabo una exquisita disección de la obsesión y la redención, envuelta en una trama de suspense.
Michael Butcher Boone es un pintor famoso de carácter testarudo, talentoso y obstinado. Su carrera le ha llevado a vivir en una solitaria casa de campo junto a Hugh, su hermano pequeño, emocionalmente inestable. La vida en común de los hermanos Boone compone una estampa de delicado equilibrio, que se verá truncada cuando una misteriosa mujer llame a su puerta en plena noche de tormenta.
De forma magistral, Peter Carey transita de la intimidad de los personajes a las comunidades donde habitan: de las salvajes montañas australianas a Manhattan y Tokio, todo ello narrado con la habilidad de un ventrílocuo y la pericia de un artesano.… (más)