With which book did Peter Carey win the 1988 Booker award?
"Peter Carey (novelist) Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) 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 is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. 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"
"of the best kind of Australian."" Illywhacker Illywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985 to commercial and critical success, winning a number of awards and being short-listed for the Booker Prize. Considered metafiction or magical realism, the novel is narrated by liar, trickster, and confidence man Herbert Badgery, the ""illywhacker"" of the title, and tells the story of his picaresque life in Australia between 1919 and the 1980s. The novel is related in broad chronological order by the main protagonist, Herbert Badgery, but with frequent digressions that relate the circumstances and life history"
"Illywhacker Illywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985 to commercial and critical success, winning a number of awards and being short-listed for the Booker Prize. Considered metafiction or magical realism, the novel is narrated by liar, trickster, and confidence man Herbert Badgery, the ""illywhacker"" of the title, and tells the story of his picaresque life in Australia between 1919 and the 1980s. The novel is related in broad chronological order by the main protagonist, Herbert Badgery, but with frequent digressions that relate the circumstances and life history of Badgery himself, and of many"
"Bliss (novel) Bliss is the first novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. Published in 1981, the book won that year's Miles Franklin Award. Written as a dark, comic fable, the story concerns an advertising executive, Harry Joy, who briefly 'dies' of a heart attack. On being resuscitated, he realizes that the life he has previously drifted amiably through is in fact Hell – literally so to Harry. His wife is unfaithful, while his son is selling drugs, and his daughter is a communist selling herself to buy them. In one of the novel's more shocking scenes, glimpsed through a window,"
"(1992). Seventeen winners of the Booker Prize have taken part: Margaret Atwood (2000), Julian Barnes (2011), A.S. Byatt (1990), Peter Carey (1988) & (2001), Kiran Desai (2006), Roddy Doyle (1993), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Howard Jacobson (2010), Thomas Keneally (1982), Penelope Lively (1987), Ian McEwan (1998), Yann Martel (2002), V. S. Naipaul (1971), Ben Okri (1991), Michael Ondaatje (1992), Arundhati Roy (1997), and Salman Rushdie (1981). Seven Whitbread (now called Costa) Book of the Year Award winners have taken part: Peter Ackroyd (1985), William Boyd (1981), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Andrea Levy (2004), David Lodge (1980), Philip Pullman (2006) and Colm Tóibín"
"won in (1973). Other noteworthy Australian writers at the end of this period are poet Les Murray, and novelist Peter Carey (born 1943), who is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice. Major Canadian novelists include Carol Shields, Lawrence Hill, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro. Carol Shields novel ""The Stone Diaries"" won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and another novel, ""Larry's Party"", won the Orange Prize in 1998. Lawrence Hill's ""Book of Negroes"" won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best Book Award, while Alice Munro became the first Canadian to win the Nobel"
"was drawn into the Second World War, the book was described by the author as ""the prism"" through which he would approach life. Carew wrote novels, short stories, plays, memoirs and other non-fiction, as well as children's stories and books, but he remains best known for his first novel, ""Black Midas"" (1958). His many other works include ""The Wild Coast"", ""The Last Barbarian,"" ""Moscow Is Not My Mecca"" (US edition, ""Green Winter"", 1965), ""Fulcrums of Change"" (1988), ""Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England and the Caribbean"" (1994), and ""The Guyanese Wanderer"" (Sarabande Books, 2007). He wrote"
"Peter Carey (historian) Peter (P.B.R.) Carey (born 30 April 1948 in Rangoon) is a British historian and author who specialises in the modern history of Indonesia, Java in particular, and has also written on East Timor (Timor-Leste) and Burma (Myanmar). He was the Laithwaite fellow of Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford, from 1979 to 2008. His major early work concentrated on the history of Diponegoro, the British in Java, 1811–16 and the Java War (1825–30), on which he has published extensively. His major biography of Diponegoro, ""The Power of Prophecy"", appeared in 2007, and a succinct version, ""Destiny; The"
"True History of the Kelly Gang True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title, the book is fiction and a variation on the Ned Kelly story. In an effort to attract foreign readers to the story, the book's American publisher, Alfred Knopf, heralded the book as a ""Great American Novel"", even though the"
"His Illegal Self His Illegal Self is a 2008 novel by Australian author Peter Carey. It was shortlisted for the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The novel is set in 1972, and the main character Che Selkirk is being brought up in New York by his grandmother. On a rare excursion to the city from his isolated home on Kenoza Lake in upstate New York, Che meets a woman who he believes is his mother. The woman, Dial, attempts to arrange a meeting between Che and his mother but this"
"in March 2010 at the Sydney Opera House, directed by Neil Armfield, conducted by Elgar Howarth, and featuring Peter Coleman-Wright as Harry Joy. Tom Wright adapted in 2018 a stage version for the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, and the Belvoir, Sydney. Bliss (novel) Bliss is the first novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. Published in 1981, the book won that year's Miles Franklin Award. Written as a dark, comic fable, the story concerns an advertising executive, Harry Joy, who briefly 'dies' of a heart attack. On being resuscitated, he realizes that the life he has previously drifted amiably through is in"
"John Carey (critic) John Carey, (born 5 April 1934) is a British literary critic, and post-retirement (2002) emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books. He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2004, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. He was born in Barnes, London, and educated at Richmond and East Sheen Boys' Grammar School, winning an Open Scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. He has held posts in a"
"prominent in the protest movement against Australian participation in the Vietnam War. He was the father of the noted Australian writer, Gabrielle Carey. In 1988, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman published their """" in dedication to the memory of Carey. Claiming that it was Carey who had inspired their work, Chomsky has said, ""The real importance of Carey's work is that it's the first effort, and until now the major effort, to bring some of [the history of corporate propaganda] to public attention. It's had a tremendous influence on the work I've done."" Journalist John Pilger has called Carey"
"number of Oxford colleges, and is an emeritus fellow of Merton, where he became a Professor in 1975, retiring in 2002. He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2004, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. He is chief book reviewer for the London ""Sunday Times"" and appears in radio and TV programmes including ""Saturday Review"" and ""Newsnight Review"". He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expressed for example in his book ""What Good Are the Arts?"" (2005). Carey's 1992 book ""The Intellectuals and the"
"Janet Lee Carey Janet Lee Carey (born January 11, 1954) is an American college professor who writes fantasy fiction for children and young adults. Her novels ""The Dragons of Noor"" (2010) won a Teens Read Too Gold Star Award for Excellence, ""Dragon's Keep"" (2007) won an ALA Best Books for Young adults, and ""Wenny Has Wings"" (2002) won the Mark Twain Award (2005). Carey was born in New York and was raised in Mill Valley, California. Carey moved to Seattle, Washington to be closer to her mother and stepfather, where she currently lives at Seattle, Washington. Carey is a very"
"Kurzel serving as director. The cast includes George MacKay as Ned Kelly, Russell Crowe as Harry Power, and Essie Davis, Travis Fimmel, Sean Keenan, Dacre Montgomery, Thomasin McKenzie, and Earl Cave (son of singer Nick Cave) in unspecified roles True History of the Kelly Gang True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title,"
"The Chemistry of Tears The Chemistry of Tears is a 2012 novel by Australian author Peter Carey. Catherine Gehrig is a middle-aged horologist working in ""the Georgian halls"" of the Swinburne Museum, London SW1. For the last 13 years she has been in love with her married colleague, Matthew Tindall, and when he dies suddenly she is distraught. Her boss Eric Croft moves her to the museum annexe in Olympia and gives her a recent acquisition to assemble: a complex mechanical toy that she first thinks might be a monkey, then decides is a duck. Croft's hope is that Catherine"
"following dedication: ""For Frances Coady"" The Chemistry of Tears The Chemistry of Tears is a 2012 novel by Australian author Peter Carey. Catherine Gehrig is a middle-aged horologist working in ""the Georgian halls"" of the Swinburne Museum, London SW1. For the last 13 years she has been in love with her married colleague, Matthew Tindall, and when he dies suddenly she is distraught. Her boss Eric Croft moves her to the museum annexe in Olympia and gives her a recent acquisition to assemble: a complex mechanical toy that she first thinks might be a monkey, then decides is a duck."
"wa Thiong'o who has written novels, plays and short stories in English. Poet Derek Walcott, from Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, was another Nobel Prize winner in 1992. An Australian Patrick White, a major novelist in this period, whose first work was published in 1939, won in 1973. Other noteworthy Australian writers at the end of this period are poet Les Murray, and novelist Peter Carey, who is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice. Due to their shared constitutional histories, several countries in the Commonwealth have similar legal and political systems. The Commonwealth requires"
"""distinguished service to literature as a novelist, through international promotion of the Australian identity, as a mentor to emerging writers."" And in 2014, Carey was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by Sydney University. Carey has won numerous literary awards, including: Stories from Carey's first two collections have been repackaged in ""The Fat Man in History and Other Stories"" (1980), ""Exotic Pleasures"" (1990), and ""Collected Stories"" (1994); the last also includes three previously uncollected stories: ""Joe"" (""Australian New Writing"", 1973), ""A Million Dollars Worth of Amphetamines"" (""Nation Review"", 1975), and ""Concerning the Greek Tyrant"" (""The Tabloid Story Pocket"
"of Noor. After centuries-long exile, the dragons are uneasy and about to return. A strange wind has been blowing, sweeping children up into the sky. Among the missing is Miles's and Hanna's younger brother. They go after him and find themselves fighting alongside the dragons in a life- altering revolution. Janet Lee Carey Janet Lee Carey (born January 11, 1954) is an American college professor who writes fantasy fiction for children and young adults. Her novels ""The Dragons of Noor"" (2010) won a Teens Read Too Gold Star Award for Excellence, ""Dragon's Keep"" (2007) won an ALA Best Books for"
"American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. Carey is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received many academic awards and distinctions, including the Jean Nicod Prize for philosophy of mind in 1998. She was the first woman to receive the Rumelhart Prize, in 2009, which has been given annually since 2001 for significant contributions to the theoretical foundation of human cognition. She is married to the professor of philosophy Ned Block (NYU). Carey authored ""Conceptual Change in Childhood"", which reconciles Piaget's work on animism with later work on children's knowledge of biological concepts. She also"
"Mother Carey's Chickens (novel) Mother Carey's Chickens is a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin published in 1911 by Houghton Mifflin. The book tells the story of a poor but happy family of four children who, in spite of being fatherless, make the lives of others better. Their home life becomes complicated when Julia, a snobbish cousin, comes to live with them. The Carey children suffer many disappointments (Gilbert must forgo college, for example), but Julia is transformed when she realizes happiness has little to do with wealth. The story was dramatized in 1917, and later adapted to film. The 1938"
"thesis. He graduated in 1975, with a thesis titled ""Pangeran Dipanagara and the Making of the Java War: Yogyakarta History, 1785-1825"". Afterwards, he taught at Oxford, first being elected to a Prize Fellowship at Magdalen College in 1974. He served there until 1979, when he became the Laithwaite fellow and tutor in modern history at Trinity College. In 2006, he was made a grand officer in the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator by the government of East Timor. Carey retired in 2008 and moved to Indonesia, where he serves as an adjunct professor at the Department of Humanities of"
"protagonist with Philip Carey of Somerset Maugham's ""Of Human Bondage"". ""Philip Carey's struggle toward maturity is painfully messy…unconsciously he knows what he needs: connection to and then freedom from parental authority so that he can determine his own goals in life. [Michael Bishop's] Danny Boles, with similar needs, is certain that he already has found something to believe in: baseball."" Sanders concludes ""Insofar as the characters of ""Brittle Innings"" learn to see life's vivid extremes and as they struggle to see more, they demonstrate that love can sometimes lead not to bondage but freedom."" The novel won the Locus Award"
"Angeles Times"". A 2002 article on the health effects of drinking eight glasses of water a day won a Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award. Since 2004 Carey has worked as a science and medical writer for ""The New York Times"". He is the author of two science/math adventures for middle-schoolers, one called ""Island of the Unknowns;"" previously titled ""The Unknowns"", and ""Poison Most Vial"" . He has also written a book about learning science titled ""How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens."" Benedict Carey Benedict Carey (born 3 March 1960) is an American journalist and"
"With pieces published in the ""Financial Times"" and ""Money"", he covered the stock market and investment, interviewing, amongst others, Donald Trump. His review of previous Booker Prize winner Peter Carey's book, ""Oscar and Lucinda"", appeared in ""The Second Circle"", an online literary review. He was subsequently hired by ""TIME"", where he remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before going freelance. During this freelance period, he wrote ""The White Tiger"". Aravind Adiga now lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Aravind Adiga's debut novel, ""The White Tiger"", won the 2008 Booker Prize. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the"
"readers in the areas of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, Indigenous writing and youth literature. Many of UQP's recent fiction and poetry titles have won significant international acclaim, including Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang, which won the 2001 Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. In 2010, UQP announced that it will release selected out-of-print titles in digital formats, in addition to the digital and print publishing of new books. The UQP publication list includes novels, short stories, memoirs, essays, and poetry by writers such as Les Murray, Peter Carey, David Malouf, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Kenneth Slessor, Thea"
"attended the Loomis School (now Loomis-Chaffee) and then Harvard University. He worked various low-paying jobs before teaching for ten years in the Yup'ik Eskimo villages of southwest Alaska, where he learned the Yup'ik language (Yugtun). He published magazine articles about his experiences in Alaska in ""Country Journal, Alaska"", the ""Boston Globe Magazine"", ""Harvard Magazine"", and the ""Massachusetts Review"". He also published general interest material in ""Yankee"" and ""New England Monthly"". Carey’s first book, ""Raven’s Children: An Alaskan Culture at Twilight"", was published in 1992 (). Honored as a 1992 New York Public Library ""Book to Remember"", this chronicled a summer"
"to Charles W. Carey and Winifred E. Carey, née Cook. John Carey (critic) John Carey, (born 5 April 1934) is a British literary critic, and post-retirement (2002) emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books. He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2004, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. He was born in Barnes, London, and educated at Richmond and East Sheen Boys' Grammar School, winning an Open Scholarship to"
"respectively. The winner, as chosen by a public vote, was Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"", and was announced on July 10 at the London Literature Festival. ""Midnight's Children"" not only won the 1981 Booker, but also the special 1993 Booker of Bookers prize, which commemorated the award's 25th anniversary. The shortlisted titles were: The Best of the Booker The Best of the Booker is a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary. Eligible books included the 41 winners of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969. The six shortlisted titles were announced on 12 May 2008"
"Parrot and Olivier in America Parrot and Olivier in America is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was on the shortlist of six books for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. The book, according to its publisher, is ""an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville"", and focuses on Tocqueville's trips to the United States. The novel mimic's this life with the fictional character, Olivier de Garmont, to the life of Tocqueville, to help the reader explore Tocqueville's life. The titular ""Parrot"" is Garmont's secretary, which New"
"writing that ""By taking up ... the epithet of Erucakra (literally, 'arrows and discus'), Diponegoro may have intended to underline the belligerent nature of his proclaimed kingship"", and emphasising that the prince had used arrows and a shield as his coat of arms. Peter Carey (historian) Peter (P.B.R.) Carey (born 30 April 1948 in Rangoon) is a British historian and author who specialises in the modern history of Indonesia, Java in particular, and has also written on East Timor (Timor-Leste) and Burma (Myanmar). He was the Laithwaite fellow of Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford, from 1979 to 2008. His"