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“Bite off more than you can chew” ... Carey at home following the announcement.

From the Archives, 1982: Carey finds Bliss

40 years ago, Peter Carey’s career took off when his novel Bliss won the 1981 Miles Franklin Award.

  • Tim Dare

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Carey in 1974 at Wharf Road, Birchgrove, Sydney

Peter Carey hands over thousands of personal documents to archives

The material provides unprecedented insight into the process and personality of the author, one of only four to have won the Booker Prize twice.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Peter Carey says of his last novel: “Being pilloried for writing it would be a small cost to pay compared to lacking the courage to write it” .

Peter Carey: ‘I don’t think we’re going to lose great literature because Philip Roth acted like an a---hole’

The Australian novelist says social change is overdue but there are “a lot of wrongs being done in the name of justice”.

  • Melanie Kembrey
British actor George MacKay as Ned Kelly in True History of the Kelly Gang.

Through his eyes: The Ned Kelly story like you've never seen it before

Acclaimed director Justin Kurzel has adapted Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang into a punk-rock bushranger tale unlike anything before it.

  • Karl Quinn
British actor George MacKay as Ned Kelly in Stan Original production, True History of the Kelly Gang.

Dressed to kill: Justin Kurzel's Ned Kelly film explores the masculinity behind the mask

The Kelly gang in frocks? This latest biopic on the infamous bushranger revisits his place in history and explores what it is to be an Australian man.

  • Melissa Fyfe
Oscar and Lucinda

Opera does justice to Peter Carey's classic

Booker prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda turned the idea of nineteenth-century nation-building stories about industrious individuals on their head.

  • Peter McCallum
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Shaun Gladwell, Approach to Mundi Mundi, 2007.

What's on in Sydney: July 21 to 27

A Shaun Gladwell exhibition, conversations with Omar Sakr and a Childish Gambino sideshow.

  • Nicole Elphick

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