Dwindle Philip Carey AO (conceived 7 May 1943) is an Australian writer.
Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is often named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of just four journalists to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda, and won for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang. In May 2008 he was designated for the Best of the Booker Prize.
Notwithstanding composing fiction, he teamed up on the screenplay of the movie Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and is official executive of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, some portion of the City University of New York.
Books :
Ecstasy (1981)
Illywhacker (1985)
Oscar and Lucinda (1988)
The Tax Inspector (1991)
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994)
Jack Maggs (1997)
Genuine History of the Kelly Gang (2000)
My Life as a Fake (2003)
Burglary: A Love Story (2006)
His Illegal Self (2008)
Parrot and Olivier in America (2010)
The Chemistry of Tears (2012)
Amnesia (2014)
A Long Way From Home (2018)
Short story accumulations :
The Fat Man ever (1974)
"Crabs"
"Peeling"
"She Wakes"
"Life and Death in the Southside Pavilion"
"Room No. 5 (Escribo)"
"Glad Story"
"A Windmill in the West"
"Withdrawal"
"Give an account of the Shadow Industry"
"Discussions with Unicorns"
"American Dreams"
"The Fat Man ever"
"Atrocities" (1979)
"The Journey of a Lifetime"
"Do You Love Me?"
"The Uses of Williamson Wood"
"The Last Days of a Famous Mime"
"A Schoolboy Prank"
"The Chance"
"Scent of Roses"
"The Puzzling Nature of Blue"
"Ultra-Violet Light"
"Kristu-Du"
"He Found Her in Late Summer"
"Outlandish Pleasures"
"Atrocities"
