{"id":307883,"date":"2010-02-11T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\/?p=6500"},"modified":"2010-02-11T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T19:40:48","slug":"australia-gives-hunter%e2%80%99s-peter-carey-its-stamp-of-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/307883","title":{"rendered":"Australia Gives Hunter\u2019s Peter Carey Its Stamp of Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana;font-size: x-small\">Peter Carey, prize-winning novelist and executive director of Hunter&#8217;s MFA program in creative writing, has received yet another award &#8211; one that will make him a collector&#8217;s item. His homeland of Australia is issuing a stamp in his honor. Actually, two stamps, one with a photo of Carey from the 1970s and another with a contemporary image.<\/p>\n<p>Carey is being honored along with five other Australian authors as part of a &#8220;Living Legends&#8221; stamp series. Asked for his reaction, he said, &#8220;To be on an Australian stamp is really quite moving. There&#8217;s a big part of me that really wants to be part of Australian culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carey is the author of several celebrated novels, including <em>Oscar and Lucinda<\/em>, <em>True History of the Kelly Gang<\/em> and most recently <em>Theft: A Love Story<\/em>. He is one of only two novelists to have won the Booker Prize, one of the English language&#8217;s highest literary honors, twice.<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter asked him how he felt about being designated a &#8220;legend,&#8221; Carey&#8217;s reply was characteristically witty and light-hearted: &#8220;&#8216;Well, I&#8217;d say Donald Bradman [a revered Australian cricket player] was a legend, King Arthur, definitely a legend. I&#8217;m prepared to be a legend in my own lunchtime.&#8217;&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Carey, prize-winning novelist and executive director of Hunter&#8217;s MFA program in creative writing, has received yet another award &#8211; one that will make him a collector&#8217;s item. His homeland of Australia is issuing a stamp in his honor. Actually, two stamps, one with a photo of Carey from the 1970s and another with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}