Peter Carey (novelist)

**Peter Philip Carey** (an haife shi a ranar 7 ga Mayu 1943) marubuci ne ɗan ƙasar Ostiraliya wanda ya rayu a birnin New York sama da shekaru talatin.

Yana ɗaya daga cikin marubuta biyar kacal da suka lashe kyautar Booker sau biyu - sauran su ne JG Farrell, JM Coetzee, Hilary Mantel da Margaret Atwood. Carey ya lashe kyautar Booker ta farko a 1988, don *Oscar da Lucinda*, kuma ya lashe kyautar Booker ta biyu a 2001, don *Tarihin Gaskiya na Ƙungiyar Kelly.* A watan Mayu na 2008, an zaɓe shi don Kyautar Mafi Kyawun Booker. 

Carey ya lashe kyautar Miles Franklin sau uku, kuma ana yawan sanya masa suna a matsayin wanda zai fafata a gasar Nobel a fannin Adabi ta gaba a Ostiraliya. 

Baya ga rubuta almara, ya yi aiki tare a kan fim ɗin *Har zuwa Ƙarshen Duniya* tare da Wim Wenders kuma, tsawon shekaru goma sha tara, ya kasance babban darektan shirin Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing a Hunter College, wani ɓangare na Jami'ar City ta New York. 

## Rayuwar Farko da Aiki: 1943–1970
An haifi Peter Carey a Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, a shekarar 1943. Iyayensa suna gudanar da wani kamfanin dillanci na Holden, Carey Motors. Ya halarci Makarantar Bacchus Marsh State daga 1948 zuwa 1953, sannan ya yi karatu a Makarantar Geelong Grammar tsakanin 1954 da 1960. A shekarar 1961, Carey ya yi karatun digirin kimiyya a sabuwar Jami'ar Monash da ke Melbourne, inda ya yi karatun sinadarai da ilmin dabbobi, amma ya katse karatunsa saboda hatsarin mota da rashin sha'awa. A jami'a ne ya haɗu da matarsa ta farko, Leigh Weetman, wacce ke karatun Jamusanci da falsafa, kuma ita ma ta daina karatu. 

A shekarar 1962, ya fara aiki a fannin talla. Hukumomi daban-daban na Melbourne sun dauke shi aiki tsakanin 1962 da 1967, ciki har da kamfen na Volkswagen da Lindeman's Wine . [undefined] Aikin tallan sa ya sa shi ya haɗu da tsofaffin marubuta waɗanda suka gabatar da shi ga labaran Turai da Amurka na baya-bayan nan: "Ban fara samun ilimi ba har sai da na yi aiki a fannin talla da mutane kamar Barry Oakley da Morris Lurie - kuma Bruce Petty yana da ofis a kusa da shi." [1] Daga baya Carey zai bayyana Oakley a matsayin "wanda nake bin bashi mai yawa - kusan rayuwata a matsayin marubuci".[2]

A wannan lokacin, ya karanta littattafai da yawa, musamman ayyukan Samuel Beckett, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, da Gabriel García Márquez, kuma ya fara rubutu da kansa, inda ya sami takardar ƙin amincewa ta farko a shekarar 1964, a wannan shekarar ya auri Weetman.  A cikin 'yan shekaru masu zuwa ya rubuta littattafai biyar — *Contacts* (1964–1965), *Starts Here, Ends Here* (1965–1967), *The Futility Machine* (1966–1967), *Wog* (1969), da *Adventures on Board the Marie* [sic] *Celeste* (1971). Babu ɗayansu da aka buga. Sun Books sun karɓi *The Futility Machine* amma ba su ci gaba da bugawa ba, kuma Outback Press ta karɓi *Adventures on Board the Marie Celeste* kafin Carey da kansa ya janye ta. Waɗannan da sauran rubuce-rubucen da ba a buga ba daga lokacin - gami da gajerun labarai ashirin da ɗaya - yanzu haka ana riƙe da su a ɗakin karatu na Fryer a Jami'ar Queensland. 

Littattafan Carey guda ɗaya tilo a shekarun 1960 sune "Contacts" (ɗan gajeren labari daga littafin da ba a buga ba mai suna iri ɗaya, a cikin *Under Twenty-Five: An Anthology*, 1966) da "She Wakes" (ɗan gajeren labari, a cikin *Australian Letters*, 1967). Zuwa ƙarshen shekaru goma, Carey da Weetman sun bar Ostiraliya da "wani matakin ƙiyayya",  suna tafiya ta Turai da Iran kafin su sauka a Landan a 1968, inda Carey ya ci gaba da rubuta kwafin talla da almara da ba a buga ba.

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