Peter Carey

Peter Carey is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for more than three decades. He has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda in 1988 and True History of the Kelly Gang in 2001, and the Miles Franklin Award three times. His novels also include Bliss and Illywhacker, and for nineteen years he was executive director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Hunter College.