Peter Temple
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Peter Temple (b. 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. The Broken Shore also won the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger in 2007.[1]Temple is the first Australian to win a Gold Dagger.[2]
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[edit] Awards and Nominations
| 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) |
| The 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) |
[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)
- Truth (2008)
[edit] References
- Harrison, Dan (2007) "Australian wins top crime-writing prize" in The Age, 6 July 2007 Accessed 6 July 2007
- Peter Temple biography
- Peter Temple at Austlit
- Giles, Hugo (2006). "Peter Temple - The Broken Shore". Island 104 (Autumn).
- January Interview by David Honeybone January Magazine (Retrieved September 15, 2007)
