Peter Craven (born 1949 or 1950)^[1] is an Australian literary critic and cultural studies writer.^[2]

Life and career

While enrolled for a Master of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Craven met Michael Heyward with whom he founded Scripsi, a literary magazine which was published from 1981 to 1994.^[3] Craven has written for The Age, The Australian and the Australian Literary Review.^[4] His work has also appeared in Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing, the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books.^[3]

Craven has been described as both a "literary hack" and "one of the most prolific, erudite and opinionated voices in Australian literary circles".^[1] In 2004 he was awarded the Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year.

The legal academic Greg Craven is his younger brother.^[1]