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 37,202 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Peter Carey is the 4,615th most popular writer (down from 4,531st in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Australia (down from 169th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Australian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 37k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Oscar and Lucinda
Fiction, Glass manufacture, Clergy
1988
My life as a fake
Literary forgeries and mystifications, Women editors, Accessible book
2003
Bliss
Fiction, Near-death experiences, Suburban life
1981
True history of the Kelly gang
Man Booker Prize Winner, In library, Australia
2000
Lucifer
Graphic novels, Comic books, strips, Fantasy comic books, strips
2001
Theft
Brothers, Artists, Fiction
Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-“really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into their lives. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, she's also the daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz. Soon Marlene sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making--or the ruin--of them all.
2006

Page views of Peter Careys by language

Over the past year Peter Carey has had the most page views in the with 2,865 views, followed by Spanish (2,724), and German (2,266). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Georgian (147.93%), Bulgarian (110.26%), and Simple English (70.77%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Carey ranks 4,615 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 173 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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