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Peter Carey: Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia
The author on how, in the eyes of the Australian people in the late 19th century, a criminal became a "gentleman' bank robber" and "could have been a general".
Peter Carey's novel The True History of the Kelly Gang won the Booker Prize in 2001.
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