Peter Carey
Australian author Peter Carey who has been tipped to become the first to win the Man Booker Prize three times says only dumb people would put cookery books and Dan Brown novels at the top of the most-read charts.
"We are getting dumber every day. We are really, literally, forgetting how to read. We have yet to grasp the fact that consuming cultural junk is completely destructive of democracy," said the 67 years old author of 11 books who lives in New York during a speech to close the 2010 Sydney Writer’s Festival.
Peter Carey has won the Man Booker Prize twice for Oscar and Lucinda (1988) and True History of the Kelly Gang (2001) .
Only Carey and JM Coetzee of South Africa have won the Booker Prize twice.
Nigerian writer Ben Okri remains the youngest author to win the Booker Prize at 32 for his metaphysical novel The Famished Road in 1991.
~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima
Parrot and Olivier in America ~ Peter Carey
Theft ~ Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel ~ Peter Carey
His Illegal Self (Vintage International) ~ Peter Carey
My Life as a Fake ~ Peter Carey
Jack Maggs: A Novel ~ Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition ~ Ralph Fiennes
Bliss ~ Peter Carey
Illywhacker ~ Peter Carey
Wrong About Japan ~ Peter Carey
Summertime: Fiction ~ J. M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel(Penguin Ink) ~ J. M. Coetzee
Disgrace: A Novel ~ J. M. Coetzee
Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life ~ J. M. Coetzee
Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel ~ J. M. Coetzee
Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II ~ J. M. Coetzee
Age of Iron ~ J. M. Coetzee
Diary of a Bad Year ~ J. M. Coetzee
The Famished Road ~ Ben Okri
In Arcadia ~ Ben Okri
Dangerous Love ~ Ben Okri
Stars of the New Curfew ~ Ben Okri
A Way of Being Free ~ Ben Okri
Songs of Enchantment ~ Ben Okri
Infinite Riches (The Famished Road) ~ Ben Okri
Astonishing the Gods ~ Ben Okri
Tales of Freedom ~ Ben Okri
Starbook ~ Ben Okri
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