Born 1943 · Australia
Booker 2010 · Shortlist
Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey · 66 when first published
Novel · 451 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In the years after the French Revolution a nervous young aristocrat, Olivier, sails for America, officially to study its prisons, with Parrot, the motherless son of an English printer, sent along to guard him and spy on him.
Miles Franklin 2007 · Shortlist
Theft: A Love Story
Peter Carey · 63 when first published
Novel · 269 pages · Love, Crime, Satire
AI-generated summary:A once-famous Sydney painter, now broke, drinking and minding a patron's country house in New South Wales with his volatile, overgrown brother, is visited one stormy night by a stylish American woman who talks of a valuable painting next door.
Miles Franklin 2004 · Shortlist
My Life as a Fake
Peter Carey · 60 when first published
Novel · 280 pages
AI-generated summary:In Kuala Lumpur in 1972, an English poetry editor meets a disgraced Australian literary hoaxer whose manuscript she believes is a work of genius, but he insists that she first hear his story.
Booker 2001 · Winner
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey · 57 when first published
Novel · 401 pages · Historical, Crime
AI-generated summary:On the run from the police in colonial Victoria, the bushranger Ned Kelly writes the story of his life for the daughter he has never seen, in unpunctuated, half-schooled prose.
Also: Miles Franklin 2001 shortlist