Information AboutPeter Carey |
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He also collaborated on the Screenplay of the Film '' Until The End Of The World ''. Currently he is director of the Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College , part of the City University Of New York . BIOGRAPHY Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria , in 1943 . His parents ran a General Motors dealership, Carey Motors. He attended Bacchus Marsh State School from 1948 to 1953 , then boarded at Geelong Grammar School between 1954 and 1960 before graduating. In 1961 , Carey enrolled in a Science degree at Monash University in Melbourne , majoring in Chemistry and Zoology, but cut short his study due to a car accident and a lack of interest in his studies. In 1962 he began to work in advertising. He worked at various Melbourne advertising agencies between 1962 and 1967 , and worked on campaigns for Volkswagen and Lindeman's Winery , among many others. It was his advertising work that brought him into contact with the writers Barry Oakley and Morris Lurie , who introduced him to recent European and American fiction. Carey married his first wife, Leigh Weetman in 1964 . During this time, he read widely, particularly the works of James Joyce , Samuel Beckett , Franz Kafka and William Faulkner , and began his own writing in 1964 . By 1968 he had written a number of unpublished manuscripts, including novels entitled ''Contacts'', ''The Futility Machine'' and ''Wog'', as well as a short story collection. Several of these manuscripts were accepted by a publisher, but later rejected. In the late 1960s , he traveled through Europe and parts of the Middle East, ending up in London in 1968 , where he worked in advertising once again. Returning to Australia in 1970 , he continued to work in advertising in Melbourne and Sydney . While working in advertising, Carey wrote and published a number of short stories, in magazines and newspapers such as Meanjin and Nation Review . Most of these were published in '' The Fat Man In History ''. In 1974 , he divorced Leigh Weetman and moved to Balmain in Sydney to work for Grey's Advertising Agency. In 1977 , Carey moved to Queensland to join an 'alternative community' in Yandina , north of Brisbane . He would write for three weeks, then spend the fourth week working in Sydney. It was during this time that he wrote most of the stories collected in ''War Crimes'', as well as '' Bliss '', his first published novel. Carey started his own advertising agency in 1980 , the Sydney-based McSpedden Carey Advertising Consultants, in partnership with Bani McSpedden. In 1981 , he moved to Bellingen in northern New South Wales . He married theatre director Alison Summers in 1985 , and some time around 1990 sold his share of McSpedden Carey and moved to New York , during the writing of '' The Tax Inspector ''. This move drew criticism from many, who disputed Carey's right to speak from an Australian perspective while living outside the country. In 1998 he provoked further controversy by declining an invitation to meet Queen Elizabeth II after winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for '' Jack Maggs '', many believing his response to be motivated by his Australian Republican beliefs, though he cited family and personal reasons at the time. Carey later said he had asked for the meeting to be postponed, but the meeting was cancelled by the Palace instead. AWARDS Carey has won numerous literary awards, including: BIBLIOGRAPHY Novels
Children's books
Short story collections
Short stories
Non fiction
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