Peter Carey (novelist)

Peter Carey AO (as Peter Philip Carey, born May 7, 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria) is an Australian writer.

He began his career with advertising texts, published in 1974 first short stories and his first novel in 1981. Today he is considered the most important writer living in Australia. He was twice awarded the Booker Prize. After Melbourne, London and Sydney, he now lives in New York. He worked with Wim Wenders on the screenplay for the film " Until the End of the World". Today he is the director of the program " Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing" at Hunter College, a division of the City University of New York.

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Youth, education, first attempts at writing

Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1943. His parents operated a car dealership, Carey engine. He attended the Bacchus Marsh State School from 1948 to 1953, after which he attended as the Internal Geelong Grammar School, about 50 km south-west of Melbourne, 1954-1960 to graduation. In 1961, Carey wrote at Monash University in Melbourne in natural sciences. His main subjects were chemistry and zoology. He broke this coursework completed relatively quickly, because he took no interest in the study.

In 1962 he began working in the advertising industry. He worked for various advertising interposing these agencies between 1962 and 1967., Where he was involved in advertising campaigns for Volkswagen, among others, and Lindeman 's Winery. It was working in the advertising agencies that brought him into contact with the writers Barry Oakley and Morris Lurie. This made ​​him the latest literature trends in Europe and America known. Carey married his first wife Leigh Weetman in 1964.

During this time he read intensively, in particular he worked on James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and William Faulkner. In 1964 he began his own experiments first. In 1968 he had a few manuscripts completed, including the novels entitled Contacts, The Futility Machine and Wog, and a collection of short stories. Everything was previously unreleased. Some of these manuscripts were initially accepted by a publisher, but was later definitively rejected.

In the late sixties he traveled through Europe and parts of the Middle East. The journey ended in London in 1968, where he again worked for an advertising agency. In 1970 he returned to Australia and continued to work in the advertising industry in Melbourne and Sydney.

First success as a writer

While Carey further pursued his day job as an advertising man, he wrote and published short stories in magazines such as Meanjin and Nation Review. Most of these short stories appeared in the book The Fat Man In History (1974). In 1974 he divorced Weetman and moved to Balmain, a district in the interior west of Sydney, where he worked for Grey's Advertising Agency.

In 1976 he went to Queensland and joined an alternative community with the name of "Starlight" in Yandina, Queensland, north of Brisbane. He focused for three weeks to the letter, then worked the fourth week in Sydney. At that time he wrote most of short stories that later appeared in the band War Crimes, as well as his first published novel Bliss. During the 1970s and 1980s, he lived with the painter Margot Hutcheson.

Carey opened his own advertising agency in 1980, the Sydney's agency " McSpedden Carey Advertising Consultants ", in collaboration with Bani McSpedden. In 1981 he moved to Bellingen, New South Wales in upstate New South Wales. He married theater director Alison Summers in 1985 and about the year 1990 he sold the shares to " McSpedden Carey " and went to New York. During this time he worked on The Tax Inspector.

New York

Carey was about 1990/1991 with his wife and son to New York to teach at New York University ( NYU) creative writing. Carey and Hutcheson are now divorced and Carey lives with the publisher Frances Coady.

In 1998, he provoked controversy when he refused an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II, after he had won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs. It is assumed that the rejection of the prize by his Republican beliefs was motivated. Officially, however, the time family and personal reasons were given. Carey later said that he had asked to postpone the meeting. The meeting was also laid from the Palace.

Honors and Awards

Carey was awarded by three universities honorary doctorate, he is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, the Australian Academy of Humanities and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

2010 honored him with a postage stamp Australia Post.

Works

Novels

  • Bliss. In 1981. Bliss - The paradise for nothing. German by Charlotte Franke. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-499-12273-1.
  • Illywhacker. German by Dirk van Gunsteren. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-608-95634-4.
  • Oscar and Lucinda. German by Dirk van Gunsteren. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-608-95682-4.
  • The Steuerfahnderin. German by Peter Torberg. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-608-95861-4.
  • The strange life of Tristan Smith, German by Peter Torberg; Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-608-93379-4.
  • The secret machinations of Jack Maggs. German by Regina Rawlinson. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8105-0359-2.
  • The true story of Ned Kelly and his gang. German by Regina Rawlinson and Angela Schumitz. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-10-010225-8.
  • My life as a fake. German by Regina Rawlinson; Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-010226-6.
  • Love - a thieves story. German by Bernhard Robben. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-10-010228-7.
  • German by Bernhard Robben: The chemistry of tears, Roman. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-010237-9.
  • The Big Bazoohley. In 1995. The Big Bang Bingo. German by Martin Hielscher. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-85018-5.
  • The Fat Man in History. In 1974. Dream Flight - fantastic stories. German Nikolaus Stingl. Wunderlich, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-8052-0355-1.

Non-fiction

  • A Letter to Our Son 1994.
  • 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account. , 2001. Instructions for Sidney. German by Regina Rawlinson. Piper, Munich, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-492-27522-2.
  • Wrong about Japan - a Tokyo trip. German by Eva Kemper. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 2005, ISBN 3-10-010227-4.

Films

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Screenplay

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