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Peter Carey
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Peter Carey was born in 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia - a town famous for apples and as the birthplace of the Australian writer, Frank Hardy. His parents had a General Motors dealership. At the age of ten, Peter Carey went to Geelong Grammar School 'where the children of Australia's Best Families all spoke with English accents' and then to university where he failed a science degree in one year. He worked in advertising for many years and became one of the leading copywriters in Australia. He started writing in 1965 and has since won the Booker Prize twice. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest living short story writers.








