Background
Carter was born in Manchester, one of eight children.
Carter was born in Manchester, one of eight children.
His books were shortlisted for many more prizes, and were translated into at least six languages, from Japanese to Portuguese. He left school at 14 and later took evening classes in art and philosophy, before entering Wadham College, Oxford at age 30. There he received the Master of Arts in English Literature in 1962.
He was a school teacher from 1963 to 1976 and then a full-time writer until his death in 1999 from abdominal hæmorrhage, suffered while writing at home in Warwick.
Carter"s first wife Lois Wilkinson died after one year, during his time at Oxford.