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Peter Carey

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An Australian novelist, known primarily for being one of only 3 writers to have won the Booker Prize twice (the others being J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel).

title	form	genre	written	owned
Bliss	novel	comedy	1981
Illywhacker	novel	(undefined)	1985
Oscar and Lucinda	novel	(undefined)	1988
The Tax Inspector	novel	(undefined)	1991
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith	novel	(undefined)	1994
Jack Maggs	novel	(undefined)	1997
True History of the Kelly Gang	novel	(undefined)	2000
My Life as a Fake	novel	(undefined)	2003
Theft	novel	(undefined)	2006
His Illegal Self	novel	(undefined)	2008
Parrot and Olivier in America	novel	(undefined)	2009
The Chemistry of Tears	novel	(undefined)	2012

award	category	for	year
Man Booker Prize	Fiction	Oscar and Lucinda	1988
Man Booker Prize	Fiction	True History of the Kelly Gang	2001

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