Peter Carey
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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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
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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
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
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
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
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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