“True History of the Kelly Gang” is a 2019 film based on “True History of the Kelly Gang” by Peter Carey, and starring George MacKay, Essie Davis and Russell Crowe. Notable awards: Winner 2001 Man Booker Prize (UK) Winner 2000 Colin Roderick Award, Best Australian Book Winner 2001 QLD Premier’s Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book Winner 2001 VIC Premier’s Literary Award, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction Winner 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia Region, Best Book for Region Award Winner 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize, Overall Best Book Award Winner 2002 Festival Awards for Literature (SA), The Premier’s Award Shortlisted 2001 Miles Franklin Award Shortlisted 2002 International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardĪdaptations: 1. The King River is more obliging cutting right down the centre of the wedge to join the Ovens River exactly at Wangaratta.” ~Quotes from “True History of the Kelly Gang” by Peter Carey It would be simplest to say the Broken River makes the western side of the wedge thats a lie but never mind. At the apex of the wedge is the river town of Wangaratta and you might imagine the Ovens River running along the eastern side of the wedge. “Let me give you a very rough idea of the territory it is not an easy bit of land to learn so 1st I will give you a simple picture you must imagine a great wedge of pie with a high ridge around its outer crust they call that ridge the Great Dividing Range. “She had a mother and father and brothers and sisters but in the end she were a poor widow and she had 7 children and all of them was alarmed and unsettled by their lives.” of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false. He died by hanging in Melbourne on 11th November 1880 at the age of 25. It begins with accounts of his early life in country Victoria, and ends with his description of the siege at Glenrowan where he was captured by police, put on trial, and sentenced to death. The author has imagined that the Australian bushranger Ned Kelly has given an account of his life for the daughter he hasn’t met. Carey said: “ My thanks to all my publishers who did not try to add a single comma.“ Peter Carey wrote his imagined version just as Ned Kelly wrote the Jerilderie Letter – sprawling and rambling.

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