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![]() ![]() Yet there had been plenty pointing me to Kelly. It was Carey’s second time on the Booker’s winning podium (firstly for Oscar and Lucinda), only the second person (after JM Coetzee) to win the prestigious award twice.įor some reason, despite the accolades and my appreciation of Carey’s work, it wasn’t until I was living in New York that I cracked the spine of this much lauded story of Australia’s favourite outlaw, Ned Kelly. True History of the Kelly Gang was awarded the 2001 Booker prize. Carey stayed for 26 years with the small press who’d got him going, even though he’d no doubt been wined and dined since his early success by suitors from every major publishing house bearing briefcases of cash. True History of the Kelly Gang was published in 2000 by the University of Queensland Press, which had published each of Carey’s previous books since his first in 1974. ![]()
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