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Peter Carey

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Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. He is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for True History of the Kelly Gang. In May 2008, he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Carey is the 4,449th most popular writer (up from 4,615th in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from Australia (down from 176th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Australian Writer.

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Among writers, Peter Carey ranks 4,449 out of 7,302. Before him are Justine Siegemund, Nicholas Pileggi, Yōko Ogawa, Vladislav Khodasevich, Grace Elliott, and Alexander Odoevsky. After him are Hanna Krall, Margarita Aliger, Alaiza Pashkevich, Diane Disney Miller, Brendan Behan, and Aleksey Koltsov.

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Among people born in 1943, Peter Carey ranks 428. Before him are Giuseppe Gentile, Nahas Angula, Yawovi Agboyibo, Roy D. Bridges Jr., Annette Messager, and Ibrahim al-Hamdi. After him are Jaak Panksepp, Michael Morpurgo, Lee Aaker, Pim Doesburg, Boediono, and Brian Ferneyhough.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Peter Carey ranks 192 out of 1,143. Before him are Shirley Strickland (1925), Stan Rowley (1876), Gregory David Roberts (1952), Daniel Ricciardo (1989), Nancye Wynne Bolton (1916), and Anna Torv (1979). After him are Adrian Quist (1913), Bill Bruce (1923), Eliza Taylor (1989), Miranda Kerr (1983), Gerald Patterson (1895), and Malcolm Turnbull (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, Peter Carey ranks 13. Before him are Elizabeth von Arnim (1866), Germaine Greer (1939), Morris West (1916), James Aldridge (1918), John Flanagan (1944), and Gregory David Roberts (1952). After him are Miles Franklin (1879), Joseph Jacobs (1854), Greg Egan (1961), Patricia Wrightson (1921), Trudi Canavan (1969), and Markus Zusak (1975).

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