Peter Temple
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Peter Temple, born 1946, is an Australian crime fiction writer.
Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, 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, He has also written four stand-alone novels: An Iron Rose, Shooting Star, In the Evil Day (Identity Theory in the US), and The Broken Shore. He has won five Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction, the most recent in 2006 for The Broken Shore, which also won the Colin Roderick Prize for best Australian book and the Australian Book Publishers' Award for best general fiction.
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[edit] Awards
| The Miles Franklin Award | The Broken Shore, longlisted 2006 |
| Australian Book Industry Awards Australian General Fiction Book of the Year | The Broken Shore, winner 2006 |
| Ned Kelly Award Best Novel | The Broken Shore, joint winner 2006 |
| White Dog, winner 2003 | |
| Dead Point, joint winner 2001 | |
| Shooting Star, winner 2000 | |
| Ned Kelly Award Best First Novel | Bad Debts, joint winner 1997 |
| Colin Roderick Award | The Broken Shore, 2006 |
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- Bad Debts (1996)
- An Iron Rose (1998)
- Shooting Star (1999)
- Black Tide (1999)
- Dead Point (2000)
- In the Evil Day (2002) aka Identity Theory
- White Dog (2003)
- The Broken Shore (2005)
