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Booker
Prize Winner 2001
Second Booker
Prize win for Peter Carey 
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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