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Release date: April 1, 2003 Novelist Peter Carey to Give Reading at Emory April 14WHO: Peter Carey, award-winning Australian novelist WHAT: Reading for annual Creative Writing and English Department Awards Night and colloquium WHEN: Reading at 8 p.m. Monday, April 14; colloquium 2:30-3:30 Tuesday, April 15 WHERE: Reading on Monday night: Cannon Chapel, 515 Kilgo Circle, Emory. COST: Free and open to the public. 404-727-4683 Two time Booker Prize-winning author Peter Carey will give a public reading at Emory University on Monday, April 14 for the Creative Writing Program and English Department Awards Night. The event will be followed by a book signing and reception. He will hold a discussion the following afternoon, and both events are free and open to the public. Carey has won every major Australian literary prize at least twice and is a two-time winner of the Booker Prize, for the novels "Oscar and Lucinda" (1988) and "The True History of the Kelly Gang" (2001). His novel "Bliss" (1981) won the Miles Franklin Award, New South Wales Premier's Literary Award and National Book Council Award, and was adapted as a film that won an award for best screenplay from the Australian Film Institute in 1985. "Oscar and Lucinda" also was adapted as a film in 1997. Carey's numerous other award-winning works include "War Crimes" (1979), "Illywhacker" (1985), "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith" (1994), and "Jack Maggs" (1997). Carey was born in Australia in 1943. He received a degree from Monash University in Clayton, Victoria in 1961. Surreal short stories made up his first book, "The Fat Man in History," published in 1974. This publication quickly established Carey as an important new figure in Australian literature. Since then, Carey has published three more short story collections and nine novels, all of which have won critical acclaim. He moved to New York in 1990. |
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