Peter Temple
Peter Temple (born 1946 in South Africa) is an Australian crime fiction writer. Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, he played a significant role in establishing the professional editing course at RMIT, Melbourne.[1] Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s.
His Jack Irish novels (Bad Debts, Black Tide, Dead Point, and White Dog) are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist. In 2012, the Australian ABC Television and the German ZDF produced the first two as feature-length films with Guy Pearce in the title role under the series title Jack Irish.[2] Temple has also written three stand-alone novels: An Iron Rose, Shooting Star, In the Evil Day (Identity Theory in the US), as well as The Broken Shore and its semi-sequel, Truth.
In 2010, Peter Temple won the Miles Franklin Award for his novel "Truth". He has also won five Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction, the most recent in 2006 for The Broken Shore, which also won the Colin Roderick Award for best Australian book and the Australian Book Publishers' Award for best general fiction. The Broken Shore also won the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger (Gold Dagger) in 2007.[3] Temple is the first Australian to win a Gold Dagger.[4]
Some time between 2013 and 2014, ABC Television plans to adapt The Broken Shore into a telemovie.[citation needed]
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Awards and nominations[edit]
| Miles Franklin Award | 2010 | Truth (winner) |
| Australian Book Industry Awards Australian General Fiction Book of the Year | 2006 | The Broken Shore (winner) |
| Colin Roderick Award | 2006 | The Broken Shore |
| Duncan Lawrie Dagger | 2007 | The Broken Shore (winner) |
| Miles Franklin Award | 2006 | The Broken Shore (longlisted) |
| Ned Kelly Awards Best Novel | 2006 | The Broken Shore (joint winner) |
| 2003 | White Dog (winner) | |
| 2001 | Dead Point (joint winner) | |
| 2000 | Shooting Star (winner) | |
| Ned Kelly Awards Best First Novel | 1997 | Bad Debts (joint winner) |
Bibliography[edit]
Jack Irish novels[edit]
- Bad Debts (1996)
- Black Tide (1999)
- Dead Point (2000)
- White Dog (2003)
Other novels[edit]
- An Iron Rose (1998)
- Shooting Star (1999)
- In the Evil Day (2002) aka Identity Theory
- The Broken Shore (2005)
- Truth (2009)
Book review[edit]
Interviews[edit]
- January Magazine Interview by David Honeybone, April 2002
- Tangled Web UK Interview by Bob Cornwell, 2007
- "Chasing Ray" weblog Interview by Colleen Mondor, August 2007
- Shots ezine Interview by Ayo Onatade, October 2007
- ABC Radio National, The Book Show In conversation with Jason Steger and Michael Robotham, July 2008
- ABC Radio National, The Book Show Interview with Ramona Koval, November 2009
References[edit]
Notes
- ^ "Temple, Peter", AustLit (subscription required)
- ^ "Jack Irish", ABC TV
- ^ "Aussie author wins crime writing prize", The Canberra Times, 6 July 2007]
- ^ Harrison (2007)
Sources
- Harrison, Dan (2007) "Australian wins top crime-writing prize" in The Age, 6 July 2007, Accessed 6 July 2007
- Peter Temple biography
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