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Author Peter Carey on his novels and issues with privacy

Martha Kearney talks with author Peter Carey, best known for being one of only three authors to win the Man Booker Prize twice.

Martha Kearney interviews author Peter Carey, best known for being one of only three authors to win the Man Booker Prize twice. Born in Australia, Carey‘s first novel Bliss was published in 1981. His first Booker Prize winning novel was Oscar and Lucinda bringing him international recognition, along with his second True History of The Kelly Gang. His latest book Amnesia, tells the story of a young, female, Australian computer hacker, and follows a journalist recreating her personality for the media. With echoes of Wikileaks and Julian Assange, the book explores Carey’s issues with privacy and the historical and political relationship between America and Australia.

(Photo: Australian writer Peter Carey, shortlisted for the Man Booker literary prize, poses with his book, Parrot and Olivier in America, 2010. Credit: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images)

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