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ما سر "الروعة" في افضل مائة رواية عالمية؟ دراسة بحثية
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Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943
.
He claims his birthplace of Bacchus Marsh had a population of 4,000. This fact should probably be checked.
He was educated at the local state school until the age of eleven and then became a boarder at Geelong Grammar School. He was a student there between 1954 and 1960 — after Rupert Murdoch had graduated and before Prince Charles arrived.
In 1961 he studied science for a single unsuccessful year at Monash University. He was then employed by an advertising agency where he began to receive his literary education, meeting Faulkner, Joyce, Kerouac and other writers he had previously been unaware of. He was nineteen.
For the next thirteen years he wrote fiction at night and weekends, working in many advertising agencies in Melbourne, London and Sydney.
After four novels had been written and rejected
The Fat Man in History
— a short story collection — was published in 1974. This slim book made him an overnight success.
From 1976 Carey worked one week a month for Grey Advertising, then, in 1981 he established a small business where his generous partner required him to work only two afternoons a week. Thus between 1976 and 1990, he was able to pursue literature obsessively. It was during this period that he wrote
War Crimes
,
Blis
s,
Illywhacker
,
Oscar and Lucinda
.
Illywhacker
was short listed for the Booker Prize.
Oscar and Lucinda
won it. Uncomfortable with this success he began work on
The Tax Inspector
.
In 1990 he moved to New York where he completed
The Tax Inspector
. He taught at NYU one night a week. Later he would have similar jobs at Princeton, The New School and Barnard College. During these years he wrote
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
,
Jack Maggs
, and
True History of the Kelly Gang
for which he won his second Booker Prize.
In 2003 he joined
Hunter College
as the Director of
the MFA Program in Creative Writing
. In the years since he has written
My Life as a Fake
,
Theft
, and
His Illegal Self
.
He is at work on a new novel.
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