WRITER

Peter Carey

1943 - Today

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Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. He is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for True History of the Kelly Gang. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Carey has received more than 38,886 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Peter Carey is the 4,616th most popular writer (down from 4,531st in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Australia (down from 169th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Australian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 39k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Carey ranks 4,616 out of 7,302. Before him are Walter Anderson, Art Buchwald, John Piper, Ronald Knox, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, and Javier Cercas. After him are Gordon Willis, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Gonçalves Dias, Anita Loos, Agnes Miegel, and Robert Lowell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Peter Carey ranks 432. Before him are Annette Messager, Tony Christie, Motiur Rahman Nizami, Dante Spinotti, Jamie Gillis, and Domenico Calcagno. After him are Ibrahim al-Hamdi, Peter Norton, Charles Hallahan, Shinobu Sekine, Susan Clark, and Rick Danko.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Peter Carey ranks 176 out of 1,143. Before him are Portia de Rossi (1973), Owen Davidson (1943), J. L. Mackie (1917), Sheila Fitzpatrick (1941), Dawn Fraser (1937), and Sidney Nolan (1917). After him are Frank Sedgman (1927), Ian Thorpe (1982), Harry Kewell (1978), Frederick Lane (1880), Rodney Heath (1884), and Stan Rowley (1876).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, Peter Carey ranks 15. Before him are James Aldridge (1918), Germaine Greer (1939), Banjo Paterson (1864), John Flanagan (1944), Joan Lindsay (1896), and Gregory David Roberts (1952). After him are Greg Egan (1961), Trudi Canavan (1969), Joseph Jacobs (1854), Patricia Wrightson (1921), Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920), and Markus Zusak (1975).

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