Are Peter Carey and Tad Williams both considered novelists?
Peter Carey (novelist) Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for "Oscar and Lucinda", and won for the second time in 2001 with "True History of the Kelly Gang". In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.
Sean Williams (author) Sean Llewellyn Williams (born in Whyalla, South Australia on 23 May 1967) is a New York Times best selling science fiction author who lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He is the author of over eighty published short stories and thirty-nine novels, including "Twinmaker" and (with Garth Nix) the "Troubletwisters" series. He has co-written three books in the "Star Wars: New Jedi Order" series and is a multiple recipient of both the Ditmar and Aurealis Awards. His novelisation of "" was the first novelisation of a computer game to debut at #1 on the "New York Times" bestseller list.