Peter Carey
Australian novelist who has twice won the Booker Prize and is known for his imaginative reimaginings of Australian history and identity. His fiction often employs unreliable narrators and elaborate verbal games. He is the most internationally celebrated Australian novelist of his generation.
Works
- Oscar and LucindaGentleman gambler and governess pursue love and faith through Victorian excess and loss
- True History of the Kelly GangReimagined tale of Ned Kelly narrated by the infamous Australian outlaw himself
- IllywhackerCon artist reflects on his deceptions across Australia with dark comedic unreliability
- Jack MaggsConvict transported to Australia becomes a hypnotist, ghost, and specter of British life
- The Chemistry of TearsClockmaker grieves daughter's death through obsession with restoring an antique mechanical bird