Who won the Booker Prize in 2001 with 'True History of the Kelly Gang'?
True History of the Kelly Gang Kurzel serving as director. The cast includes George MacKay as Ned Kelly, Russell Crowe as Harry Power, and Essie Davis, Travis Fimmel, Sean Keenan, Dacre Montgomery, Thomasin McKenzie, and Earl Cave (son of singer Nick Cave) in unspecified roles True History of the Kelly Gang True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title,
True History of the Kelly Gang with little in the way of punctuation or grammar; the influence of Kelly's Irish heritage is also apparent in his language. The style is similar to Kelly's most famous surviving piece of writing, The Jerilderie Letter. Excepting the frame narratives of "S.C", the novel does not contain any commas. Although there is much profanity in the novel, it has been censored (replacing vulgarities with terms such as "effing" or "adjectival") for the benefit of Kelly's fictional daughter, presumably by Kelly himself. English writer Robert McCrum named "True History of the Kelly Gang" one of the 100 greatest novels written in