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Two-time Man Booker Prize winner, Peter Carey will read from his latest novel, His Illegal Self (Knopf, 2008). Carey’s recent novel has garnered high praise, with the New Yorker calling it “one of his best recent works.” A prolific writer, Carey’s work includes War Crimes (1979), The Fat Man in History (1980), Bliss (1981), Illywhacker (1985), Oscar and Lucinda (1988), The Tax Inspector (1991), The Unusual Life of Tristran Smith (1994), Collected Stories (1995), The Big Bazoohley (1995), Jack Maggs (1997), 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (2001), True History of the Kelly Gang (2001), My Life as a Fake (2003), Wrong about Japan (2005), and Theft: A Love Story (2006). Carey continues the College’s 2008 Poetry and Fiction Series.