Peter Temple Peter Temple i(A4515 works by)
Born: Established: 10 Mar 1946
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South Africa,
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Southern Africa, Africa,
; Died: Ceased: 15 Mar 2018 Ballarat, Ballarat area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1980
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BiographyHistory

Peter Temple worked in several countries as a journalist and editor. Originally from South Africa, he moved to Australia in 1980 after two years in Germany, and settled in Sydney, where he worked as education editor on the Sydney Morning Herald and taught at (the now) Charles Sturt University, then separately administered Colleges of Advanced Education. He moved to Melbourne in 1982 to edit the journal Australian Society. He taught journalism, editing and media studies at a number of universities, and as the first senior lecturer in editing and publishing, he played a significant role in establishing the professional writing and editing course at RMIT, Melbourne.

In 1995, he retired to become a self-employed editor and writer. He was the first Australian writer to win the Gold Dagger, the British crime writers' association's most prestigious award, and the first crime writer to win the Miles Franklin Award. He also won five Ned Kelly Awards, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year Award (twice), and the Colin Roderick Award, and, among international awards, the Grand Prize for Best Foreign Thriller at the Beaune International Thriller Film Festival and the Deutscher Krimi Preis.

In 2010, when Truth was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award, Temple withdraw the novel from consideration, saying he wished to 'clear some small space for the many talented crime writers who haven't won a Ned or been shortlisted' (Age, 29 May 2010, p.26).

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y separately published work icon Truth Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2009 Z1594714 2009 single work novel crime thriller (taught in 2 units)

'Stephen Villani is the acting head of the Victoria Police homicide squad. But his first months on the job have not gone well: two Aboriginal teenagers shot dead in a botched operation he authorised in the provincial city of Cromarty; and, no progress on the killing of a man in front of his daughter outside a private girls' school.

Now five men are found dead in horrifying circumstances on the outskirts of the city. Villani's superiors and the media are baying for arrests. To add to his woes, some of the country's richest people are alarmed by the baffling killing of a young woman in the high-security tower where they live.

Villani, a man who has built his life around his work, begins to find the certainties of both crumbling. As the pressure mounts, he finds that he must contemplate things formerly unthinkable. Truth is a novel about murder, corruption, family, friends, honour, honesty, deceit, love, betrayal and truth.' (from Quercus website)

2012 winner Deutscher Krimi Preis International
2010 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Fiction
2010 shortlisted Australian Booksellers Association Awards BookPeople Book of the Year
2010 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Book of the Year
2010 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
2010 winner Miles Franklin Literary Award
form y separately published work icon Valentine's Day ( dir. Peter Duncan ) Australia : December Films Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2007 Z1513435 2007 single work film/TV 'Following a run in with the law, Ben Valentine (Rhys Muldoon) finds himself in a strange country town. He is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and forced to coach the town's "no-hoper" football team. If they don't win three out of the next four games not only will the team have to merge with their arch rivals, but the town will also lose its precious pie factory which will have to be sold. Embraced heart and soul by the townsfolk, this one-time drifter learns how to live and hope again - and so does the town. Valentine's Day is a tale of hope and redemption.'
2008 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Best Telefeature, Mini Series or Short Run Series
y separately published work icon The Broken Shore Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2005 Z1207328 2005 single work novel crime (taught in 9 units)

'Joe Cashin was different once. He moved easily then; was surer and less thoughtful. But there are consequences when you've come so close to dying. For Cashin, they included a posting away from the world of Homicide to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. Now all he has to do is play the country cop and walk the dogs. And sometimes think about how he was before.

'Then prominent local Charles Bourgoyne is bashed and left for dead. Everything seems to point to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community; everyone seems to want it to. But Cashin is unconvinced. And as tragedy unfolds relentlessly into tragedy, he finds himself holding onto something that might be better let go.'
Source: Publisher's website (Sighted 22/8/11)

2005 winner Colin Roderick Award
2006 joint winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best Novel
2006 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
2006 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
2007 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) International Success Award
2008 shortlisted Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Martin Beck Award Shortlisted for the 2008 translation by Boel Unnerstad.
2007 winner Crime Writers' Association (UK) The Duncan Lawrie Dagger
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