ABSTRACT
Peter Temple is an internationally acclaimed Australian crime fiction writer. Born in South Africa in 1946, he moved to Australia in 1980 to continue his work as a newspaper journalist and editor. In 1982 he moved from Sydney to Melbourne and became the founding editor of the magazine Australian Society. He has taught journalism, editing and media studies at different universities in Australia, and was instrumental in establishing the professional writing and editing course at Melbourne’s RMIT University. He began writing crime fiction in the 1990s, earning the prestigious Ned Kelly Award for his first novel, Bad Debts. He has since won four further Ned Kelly Awards and a host of other national and international prizes, including the UK’s Duncan Lawrie Dagger in 2007 for The Broken Shore. In 2010, he won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, for his novel Truth – the first time this award had been given to a writer of crime fiction. His Jack Irish novels, which are set in Melbourne, have been adapted for the screen by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. A feature film of The Broken Shore, starring Don Hany as the brooding and troubled Joe Cashin, aired on the ABC in February 2014.
