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Peter Carey

August 2020

  • A still from 2020 film True History of the Kelly Gang, based on Kelly’s Booker-winning novel.

    The unmissables
    The Australian book you should read next: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

    In Carey’s take on the enduring Australian myth, the odds are stacked up so highly against everyone your heart gets broken on every page

February 2020

  • Ned Kelly, 1946

    Peter Carey on True History of the Kelly Gang: ‘At 56, I wrote what my younger self could not have managed’

    Thirty years after discovering an inspirational letter by bushranger Ned Kelly, Carey found the voice for his Booker prize-winning novel

January 2020

  • A scene from True History of the Kelly Gang

    True History of the Kelly Gang's Justin Kurzel: ‘There is always room for new stories about familiar legends’

  • Jeff Sparrow

    True History of the Kelly Gang's cross-dressing punk rock outlaw is not quite as radical as he looks

    Jeff Sparrow

September 2019

  • Books of the century so far

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best books of the 21st century

    Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000

July 2019

  • Oscar and Lucinda, Sydney Chamber Opera, Carriageworks, Image Zan Wimberley 2019 (5)

    Oscar and Lucinda review – Peter Carey's novel refracted into operatic colour

    Carriageworks, Sydney
    Sydney Chamber Opera sees reckless beauty in the Booker prize-winning tale of a wager between an unlikely couple

November 2018

  • “Alias Grace” Day 6365 Photo: Jan Thijs 2016<br>Alias Grace - Netflix press publicity

    Top 10s
    Top 10 modern Victorian novels

    Narrative tricks minted in the 19th century are still working in contemporary fiction by authors from Margaret Atwood to Sarah Waters

July 2018

  • Aerial view of Henbury cattle station in Alice Springs, Australia.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 tales from the frontier

    From Peter Carey to Cormac McCarthy, these are some of the most compelling depictions of a territory where both danger and discovery lie
  • magic book

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about self-reinvention

    From Kate Atkinson to Margaret Atwood and Gail Honeyman, here are some of the best stories of radical renewal
  • Peter Carey and Julian Barnes in conversation with Alex Clark at the Southbank Centre in London.

    Man Booker prizewinners criticise decision to allow US writers to enter

    Peter Carey calls rule change ‘exercise in corporate branding’ and Julian Barnes says it is ‘daft’

June 2018

  • Clockwise from top left: Hilary Mantel, Marlon James, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood and Julian Barnes.

    What it is like to win the Booker prize, by Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Peter Carey and more

    As the Man Booker prize turns 50 and readers vote for their favourite ever recipient, novelists reveal the highs (and lows) of winning ‘the Oscar’ of the literary world

May 2018

  • Peter Carey, Michelle de Kretser and Kim Scott.

    Miles Franklin award 2018: Peter Carey among authors longlisted

    Six women and five men will compete for Australia’s most prestigious literary prize

April 2018

  • Booker winners Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel and Kazuo Ishiguro.

    Man Booker festival: Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro and Hilary Mantel among lineup

    ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ gathering of winners in London in July will include rare joint appearance from mother-daughter honorees Anita and Kiran Desai

February 2018

  • Australian novelist and two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey.

    Supporters' views: 'Peter Carey seemed completely at ease discussing his work'

    Three Guardian supporters reflect on the recent evening of conversation with Peter Carey, the Booker prize-winning Australian novelist

January 2018

  • Peter Carey

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Peter Carey in conversation - books podcast

    In this Guardian Live event, the double Booker winner talks about his new novel A Long Way from Home and the legacy of colonialism in Australia
  • 1954 Redex trials

    Book of the week
    A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey review – a journey into Australia’s past

    A joyous car race across 1950s Australia becomes an examination of the nation’s crimes against its Indigenous people
  • Peter Carey, novelist. Photo by Sarah Lee

    Book of the day
    A Long Way from Home review – Peter Carey’s best novel in decades

    The acclaimed writer’s 14th novel is a nuanced story of racial identity set in postwar Australia

November 2017

  • Helen Garner

    Bookmark this
    Helen Garner, Peter Carey and Alexis Wright on what they're reading in November

  • Peter Carey

    Peter Carey: 'You wake up in the morning and you are the beneficiary of a genocide'

March 2017

  • Benedict Cumberbatch<br>FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2016 file photo, Benedict Cumberbatch poses in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cumberbatch will play an aristocratic playboy, the title character in a five-part Showtime series “Melrose” that begins production this summer. The series is a co-production with Sky Atlantic. No air date has been given. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

    Books blog
    London book fair: new Peter Carey and Benedict Cumberbatch snaps up Matt Haig

    First day of the annual trade fair sees British actor option unpublished Haig novel and a new book from Peter Carey
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