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Also Known As Peter Philip Carey
Born May 7, 1943 (age 81) • Bacchus Marsh • Australia
Awards And Honors Booker Prize (2001) • Booker Prize (1988)
Notable Works “A Long Way from Home” • “Amnesia” • “Bliss” • “His Illegal Self” • “Illywhacker” • “Jack Maggs” • “My Life as a Fake” • “Oscar and Lucinda” • “Parrot and Olivier in America” • “The Chemistry of Tears” • “The Fat Man in History” • “The Tax Inspector” • “The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith” • “Theft: A Love Story” • “True History of the Kelly Gang” • “War Crimes”

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David Malouf
Australian author
Ethel Robertson
Henry Handel Richardson
Australian novelist
Christina Stead
Australian author
Janette Turner Hospital
Australian author
Vance Palmer.
Vance Palmer
Australian author
Elizabeth Jolley
Australian author
Thea Astley
Australian author
Xavier Herbert
Xavier Herbert
Australian author
Steele Rudd
Steele Rudd
Australian writer
Katharine Susannah Prichard.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Australian author
Hal Porter
Australian author
Thomas Keneally
Australian author
Violet Martin
Irish writer
Edith Somerville
Irish writer
Witi Ihimaera
New Zealand author
Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Maria Dąbrowska
Polish author and critic
Jens Peter Jacobsen, detail of an oil painting by E. Josephson, 1879; in the Nationalhistoriske Museum at Frederiksborg, Denmark.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Danish author
Rosario Ferré
Puerto Rican writer