True History of the Kelly Gang was awarded the 2001 Booker prize. Carey stayed for 26 years with the small press who’d got him going, even though he’d no doubt been wined and dined since his early success by suitors from every major publishing house bearing briefcases of cash. I don’t think any of that process limits creativity, in fact I think it increases it.True History of the Kelly Gang was published in 2000 by the University of Queensland Press, which had published each of Carey’s previous books since his first in 1974. ”I think people are so used to writers being lazy and arrogant and writing about other cultures, without really taking the time and the effort to listen and then to be brave enough to have their manuscripts read by people who are not necessarily literary but have a point of view about it. “There were things about writing that book that may have caused offence and upset, but being pilloried for writing it would be a small cost to pay compared to lacking the courage to write it,” he said. He doesn’t take the all-or-nothing Lionel Shriver approach towards the question of cultural appropriation, but recognises a need for writers to be humble, patient and consultative. Carey recognised the complexities that now come with writing across difference.
While acknowledging his status as an “old white guy”, Carey said teaching at New York University’s Hunter College kept him “connected to a complex society” and he didn’t feel alienated from the concerns of his students.Ĭarey’s last novel, 2017’s A Long Way From Home, told the story of colonial Australia’s treatment of Indigenous people using a character who had been brought up white but discovered he was Indigenous. I think one just negotiates each particular event as it occurs.” That’s an important thing that happens but what comes with it is also injustice comes with it and all sorts of things come with it. You always have to think that women have taken shit from men forever and had to deny it and not denying it any more is a huge change in the world.
“I think the time we are in is very complicated and it’s very confusing and there’s a lot of wrongs being done in the name of justice.
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