Peter Carey is an Australian novelist, born on February 7, 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria[?], and after living in Melbourne, London and Sydney he is now based in New York. He wrote advertising copy in the early days of his literary career.

Novels:

• Bliss[?] (1981)
• Illywhacker[?] (1985)
• Oscar and Lucinda (1988) - winner of the Booker Prize
• The Tax Inspector[?] (1991)
• The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith[?] (1994)
• Jack Maggs[?] (1997)
• True History of the Kelly Gang[?] (2000) - winner of the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize

Children's:

• The Big Bazoohley[?] (1995)

Short stories:

• The Fat Man in History[?] (1974)
• War Crimes (1979)
• Exotic Pleasures (1990)

Non Fiction:

• A Letter to Our Son (1994)
• 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (2001)

He also collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World