Books000014EF Nov 20, 2009
The meaning of friendship and democracy are explored in a rich and dazzling novel that shows Peter Carey at his best. Anecdotes of gentle madness coalesce to form an overview of contemporary Australia beyond the urban heartland. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Worlds apart Nov 19, 2009
Then we came across a display case containing the iBook G4 laptop on which Peter Carey wrote 'The True History of the Kelly Gang', sitting beside a marked up manuscript and editions of the book it was used to write. More than words. (BBC News -- Technology)
Parrot and Olivier in America Nov 11, 2009
This is Peter Carey at his best: playful, extravagant, even rambling at times, yet fully in control. It is sometimes hard to know where these adventures are heading, yet they all finish up going somewhere meaningful and satisfying. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Anthology of Australian history launched Oct 8, 2009
A collaboration six years in the making, it includes literary pieces from well known authors such as Peter Carey, Patrick White, the poetry of Henry Lawson, rocker Nick Cave and Judith Wright. A speech by former prime minister Paul Keating, a memoir by Germaine Greer and a few works of Barry Humphries, a la Dame Edna Everage, are also among the more than 500 pieces by 300 authors. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
British author Mantel beats Coetzee to Booker Prize Oct 7, 2009
She added: "[Australian author] Peter Carey once said that, for an author, winning the Booker Prize could be like being in a train crash. "If that is so, at this moment I am happily flying through the air. " She was presented with a cheque for 50,000 ($90,000) and can now expect a big fillip in her sales worldwide. All the short-listed authors receive 2500, a designer-bound edition of their own novel and a year's membership to London's famous Groucho Club in Soho. The judges this year were... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Our authors still need protection Sep 23, 2009
This will lead to a return to ''old colonial logic'' (Tim Winton), and the likely reduction of editorial staff to ''marketers and publicists for Paris Hilton'' (Peter Carey). Australia is a small player in a global distribution market. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Happy 80th birthday, Faber Sep 21, 2009
The anniversary publications also include the Faber Firsts, 10 republished paperbacks of debut novels which are now famous, including Bliss by Peter Carey, A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro, Cover Her Face by P.D. James and The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi. The books have new covers that echo the distinctive eras of Faber design. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Go to bed with a good book? No thanks Sep 9, 2009
And then in 2006 Peter Carey gave us Theft: A Love Story, the unauthentic nature of its central romance helping make plain the real theme of the book: identity. Australia in its modern context is an adolescent nation - an adolescent nation brought up for a long time in a conservative family. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Politics stymie National Labor Relations Board Sep 7, 2009
National Labor Relations Board Chairman Wilma B. Liebman and Peter Carey Schaumber, a longtime board member and former chairman, left, meet in a conference room at NLRB headquarters in Washington, Monday, Aug. 24. This independent federal agency enforces the National Labor Relations Act and keeps accord among unions and private sector employers. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Publishing in Australia: Copyrights and wrongs Aug 26, 2009
Peter Carey, a literary patriot abroad ... The novels of Peter Carey, the country s most acclaimed contemporary author, are cheaper in America (where he now lives) than in Australia, laments the Productivity Commission ... In response, the Productivity Commission has suggested that the young, aspiring Peter Careys of the future might be succoured by government grants. (The Economist)
Inquiry bodes ill for writers Jul 14, 2009
Authors such as Tim Winton, Kate Grenville and Peter Carey have peppered the commission with submissions. Winton wrote: "Copyright recognises and enshrines the value of original work. "Copyright is the single most important industrial fact in a writer's life, the civilising influence of a culture upon a market. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
It's time for an ambitious new literature of the workplace May 31, 2009
Consider some of the great Booker Prize-winning fiction writers of the last two decades: Anne Enright, John Banville, Yann Martel, Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro - fine writers and deserving winners, yet all of them writing to one side of the working realm. The territory of the novel seems inevitably to be defined by the domestic subject matter tackled by Pulitzer Prize-winning writers like Anne Tyler or Michael Cunningham. (Boston Globe)
Carey beaten to Booker May 28, 2009
Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has edged out Australian Peter Carey to win the biennial Man Booker International Prize worth STG60,000 ($A121,000). The judging panel, which comprised writers Jane Smiley, Amit Chaudhuri and Andrey Kurkov, praised the 77-year-old for the originality and depth of her work. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Munro wins international Booker May 27, 2009
She saw off competition from 13 other nominees, including Australian two-time Booker winner Peter Carey and Briton James Kelman, to win the 60,000 award. It is given every two years to a living author for an entire body of work that has contributed to fiction across the world stage. (BBC News -- Americas)
Alice Munro Beats Carey, Oates for $94,900 Man Booker International Prize May 27, 2009
May 27 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian won the third , overcoming competition from authors including Peter Carey, and for the cash award of 60,000 pounds ($94,900). First bestowed on Albanian writer Ismail Kadare in 2005, the prize is granted once every two years in recognition of a living author who has made an outstanding contribution to world literature. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
A smack turns into a slap on the back for Tsiolkas May 17, 2009
AUSTRALIAN author Christos Tsiolkas joined the ranks of such international literary giants as Peter Carey, Janet Frame and Vikram Seth yesterday when he won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his gritty portrayal of Melbourne suburbia, The Slap. The $20,000 prize was announced at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Carey in line for major award Mar 20, 2009
Australian writer Peter Carey, Ragtime novelist E.L. Doctorow and Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul are among the 14 finalists announced for the Man Booker International Prize ... Peter Carey (Australia). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Kanye West faces charges Mar 19, 2009
Also cited were Australia's Peter Carey, Mahasweta Devi of Bangladesh, Scottish author James Kelman, Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru, Arnost Lustig of the Czech Republic, Canadian short story writer Alice Munro, Italy's Antonio Tabucchi, Kenyan Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Dubravka Ugresic of Croatia, and Ludmila Ulitskaya of Russia. (AP). (Boston Globe)
Carey up for international Booker Mar 19, 2009
Two-time Booker winner Peter Carey has made the shortlist for the prize's prestigious international honour. The Australian writer is nominated along with 13 other novelists, including Peruvian Manuel Vargas Llosa and 2001 Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
