She is only the third double winner of the award, after JM Coetzee and Peter Carey.

BBC: Man Booker Prize won by Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies

Ian McEwan and Peter Carey head the shortlist for the Booker prize, the literary world's most prestigious award.

BBC: McEwan heads Booker shortlist

Co-star Cate Blanchett, who plays Lucinda Leplastrier, an Australian heiress and fellow gambler, was drawn to Peter Carey's original story for similar reasons.

CNN: Fiennes, Blanchett gamble on 'Oscar and Lucinda'

On the fiction front, there were shout-outs for Tim Winton's much-loved Cloudstreet, Murray Bail's Eucalyptus, and Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning True History of the Kelly Gang.

BBC: Essential reading for new arrivals in Australia

Just read the adulatory reviews whenever Cate Blanchett takes a Sydney Theatre Company production to New York or Washington, or when Peter Carey publishes a new novel.

BBC: Australia: The Consequential Country

Coetzee and Australian Peter Carey.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Carey called his cousin Peter, who called in lawyers who instructed Carey to stay put, reminding him of his fiduciary duty.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The next morning Carey and his cousin Peter, a lawyer, showed up at Duffy's house.

FORBES: Magazine Article

David Carey, president of Hearst Magazines, sat down with AllThingsD's Peter Kafka to kick off Day 2 of D:Dive Into Media here in Dana Point, California, with the interview centering on Carey's take on how digital magazines are working out in a world that seems less and less intrigued by physical books.

ENGADGET: Hearst president David Carey: Apple taught people 'how to buy digital content'