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  Booker Prize Winner 2001

Second Booker Prize win for Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang

Australian-born Peter Carey was named the winner of the 2001 Booker Prize for Fiction with "True History of the Kelly Gang"..

The bookies' favourite for 2001, Peter Carey was the last Australian winner of the Booker Prize, in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, making him and J M Coetzee the only authors to have won the Booker Prize twice. He was also shortlisted in 1985 for Illywhacker. 

The Booker Prize is now in its 33rd year. The winner receives a total of £21,000 with a guaranteed increase in sales and recognition worldwide. Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives £1,000 and a designer bound edition of their own book.

 

 

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