Artists

Peter Carey, a multi-award-winning author, was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and moved to New York in 1990. His books have won or been short-listed for every major literary award in Australia. In 1993 he joined Hunter College as the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. He is currently at work on his new novel.

Peter Carey has won the Booker Prize twice – in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang and in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. In 1998 he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs, and again in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 2006 he won the Victorian Premier’s Award and in 2007 the NSW Premier’s Award for Theft: A Love Story. His latest novel, His Illegal Self, was published in early 2008.