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June 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda He’s won the Booker Prize twice, the Miles Franklin Award three times and recently appeared on two postage stamps as part of a series on “Australian Legends”.
Now novelist Peter Carey has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Carey received the honour not only for distinguished service to literature but also for promoting the Australian identity internationally and for his work as a teacher and a mentor to other writers.
A resident of New York for the past 20-odd years, Carey was born in the small Victorian town of Bacchus Marsh in 1943 and attended Geelong Grammar as a boarder from the age of 11.
Dropping out of Monash University after a single year he worked for advertising agencies in Melbourne, London and Sydney while writing fiction.
His breakthrough came with the short story collection The Fat Man in History, published to critical acclaim in 1974.
He won his first Miles Franklin Award in 1981 for Bliss, which was later adapted into a film.
Carey was first shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1985 for Illywhacker and won it for the first time in 1988 with Oscar and Lucinda, which was made into a film starring Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in 1997.
He received his second Booker for True History of the Kelly Gang in 2001 and in May published his latest work, The Chemistry of Tears.
He recently told The Guardian newspaper in the UK that he accepts living away from Australia will always make him a little sad.
“Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy,” he told the paper.
“But it’s pain. Pain concerning the past. It’s true about my country; about the past of my country; it’s true about loss, death, time. All of those things.
“I’m not quite homesick now, but … the past is home.”
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