Distinguished Professor Peter Carey Wins British Literary Award

A new honor has been bestowed on Peter Carey, world-renowned novelist and two-time Booker Prize winner. Carey, a Distinguished Professor and executive director of Hunter’s MFA Creative Writing Program, received the 2015 Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, presented annually in recognition of a lifetime's achievement in books.

Carey received the award at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, where he presented his latest novel, Amnesia, and reflected on his career with The Sunday Times Chief Fiction Reviewer Peter Kemp. Kemp presented Carey with a 1790 edition of the classic novel Tristram Shandy.

Carey won the Booker in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and another in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 2012 he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia.