Awards and Distinctions
Carey has been awarded three honorary degrees. He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1989), an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2001), and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003). In 2010, he appeared on two Australian postage stamps in a series dedicated to "Australian Legends". On 11 June 2012, Carey was named an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to literature as a novelist, through international promotion of the Australian identity, as a teacher, and as a mentor to emerging writers."
Carey has won numerous literary awards, including:
| Booker Prize | Illywhacker, shortlisted in 1985; Oscar and Lucinda, 1988; True History of the Kelly Gang, 2001; Theft: A Love Story, longlisted in 2006; Parrot and Olivier in America, shortlisted in 2010. Peter Carey, J. M. Coetzee, and Hilary Mantel are the only authors to have won the Booker Prize twice. |
| Miles Franklin Award | Bliss, 1981; Oscar and Lucinda, 1989; Jack Maggs, 1998; True History of the Kelly Gang, shortlisted in 2001; Theft: A Love Story, shortlisted in 2007 |
| The Age Book of the Year Award | Illywhacker, 1985; The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, 1994; Jack Maggs, 1997 |
| Colin Roderick Award | Oscar and Lucinda, 1988; True History of the Kelly Gang, 2001 |
| Commonwealth Writers Prize | Jack Maggs, 1998; True History of the Kelly Gang, 2001 |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Award | War Crimes, 1980; Bliss, 1982 |
| NBC Banjo Award | Bliss, 1982; Illywhacker, 1985; Oscar and Lucinda, 1989 |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Award | True History of the Kelly Gang, 2001 |
| FAW Barbara Ramsden Award | Illywhacker, 1985 |
| Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction | Illywhacker, 1986 |
| Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award | Oscar and Lucinda, 1988 |
| South Australia Festival Award | Oscar and Lucinda, 1990 |
| Ditmar Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel | Illywhacker, 1986 |
| Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger | True History of the Kelly Gang, 2003 |
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