He was employed by various Melbourne agencies between 19, including on campaigns for Volkswagen and Lindeman's Wine. In 1962, he began to work in advertising. It was at university that he met his first wife, Leigh Weetman, who was studying German and philosophy, and who also dropped out. In 1961, Carey enrolled in a science degree at the new Monash University in Melbourne, majoring in chemistry and zoology, but cut his studies short because of a car accident and a lack of interest.

He attended Bacchus Marsh State School from 1948 to 1953, then boarded at Geelong Grammar School between 19. His parents ran a General Motors dealership, Carey Motors. Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1943. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda, and won for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood. Carey is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice-the others being J.

Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Peter Philip Carey AO (born ) is an Australian novelist.

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