Peter Temple
Peter Temple (born March 10, 1946 in South Africa , † March 8, 2018 in Ballarat ) was an Australian crime writer .
Life
Temple grew up in South Africa, studied history and politics. He then worked as a journalist for newspapers and magazines in several countries, including from 1978 to 1980 as a proofreader and translator at Friedrich Reinecke Verlag in Hamburg. In 1980 he went to Australia, where he worked for the Australian Society magazine . He has also lectured in journalism and media studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and other universities.
In 1995 he went into business for himself and started writing detective novels. His first novel Bad Debts introduced the private detective and ex-lawyer Jack Irish, who is investigating in Melbourne. In 1997 he received the Australian Ned Kelly Award for best first novel. Since then he has alternately written crime novels with Jack Irish and without a permanent investigator. He won the Ned Kelly Award four more times in the Best Novel category . With the Miles Franklin Award (2010 for Truth ) he was the first crime writer to win this major Australian literary award.
Temple's novels dealt very much with Australian society; it was also not published abroad for a long time because its publisher Random House thought it was "too Australian". Therefore, in 2003 he finally switched to the independent text publishing company from Melbourne, which successfully launched it on the international market.
His most successful novel was The Broken Shore ( Cold August / 2005), which has been translated worldwide. In addition to the Ned Kelly Award and two other general Australian book awards, Temple was the first Australian writer to receive the renowned British Duncan Lawrie Dagger (Gold Dagger) in 2007 . The Broken Shore is set in rural Australia and takes on, among other things, the problems of the Australian Aborigines and Australian local politics.
Peter Temple lived with his wife and an adopted son in Ballarat, west of Melbourne, where he died in March 2018 at the age of 71.
Works
the Jack Irish series
- 1996 Bad Debts
- Forgotten debt , German by Sigrun Zühlke, Goldmann, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-442-46395-4
- 1998 Black Tide
- Trace into Nowhere , German by Sigrun Zühlke, Goldmann, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-442-46396-1
- 2000 Dead Point
- The last message , German by Sigrun Zühlke, Goldmann, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-442-46763-1
- 2003 White Dog
- Commemoration of the dead , German by Sigrun Zühlke, Goldmann, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-442-46813-3
other novels
- 1997 to Iron Rose
- The guilt of bygone days , German by Hans M. Herzog, Penguin Verlag, Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-328-10070-6
- 1999 shooting star
- Shooting Star , German by Hans M. Herzog, C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-570-01006-8
- 2002 In the Evil Day
- Days of Evil , German by Sigrun Zühlke, C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-570-00999-4
- 2005 The Broken Shore
- Kalter August , German by Hans M. Herzog, C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-570-00950-5
- 2008 Truth
- Truth , German by Hans M. Herzog, C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-570-01099-0
Awards
- 1997 Ned Kelly Award - Category Best First Novel for Bad Debts (German: Forgotten Guilt )
- 2000 Ned Kelly Award - Category Best Novel for Shooting Star (German Shooting Star )
- 2001 Ned Kelly Award - Best Novel category for Dead Point ( The Last Message )
- 2003 Ned Kelly Award - Best Novel category for White Dog (German commemoration of the dead )
- 2006 Ned Kelly Award - Best Novel category for The Broken Shore (German Cold August )
- 2006 "Australian Book Industry Award - General Fiction" for The Broken Shore
- 2006 "Colin Roderick Award - Best Australian Book" for The Broken Shore
- 2007 Gold Dagger : The Broken Shore
- 2008 Crime of the Year 2007 (4th place) in the KrimiWelt best list for Cold August
- 2009 Crime of the Year 2008 (4th place) in the KrimiWelt best list for Shooting Star
- 2010 Miles Franklin Award for Truth (dt. Truth )
- 2010 "Australian Book Industry Award - General Fiction" for Truth
- 2010 "Victorian Premier's Literary Award" for Truth
- 2012 German Crime Prize - International (1st place) for truth
- 2012 Crime of the Year 2011 (4th place) in the KrimiZEIT best list for truth
- 2013 Crime of the year 2012 (4th place) in the KrimiWelt best list for Days of Evil (Original: In the Evil Day )
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Temple in the catalog of the German National Library
- Roland Krüger: Description of the Australian soul - Peter Temple: "Cold August"… . Deutschlandfunk Kultur , May 10, 2007 (review and short biography)
- Peter Temple: Cold August. buecher.de , February 10, 2007, archived from the original on January 12, 2016 ; Retrieved March 11, 2018 (reviews).
- David Honeybone: Interview: Peter Temple: lies, lies and videotape . JanuaryMagazine.com, April 2002 (English)
- Alison Flood: Could Miles Franklin turn the Booker prize to crime? The Guardian , June 25, 2010 (for winning the Miles Franklin Prize)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jason Steger: Acclaimed crime writer Peter Temple this, aged 71 . Sydney Morning Herald , March 11, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Temple, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian crime writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | South Africa |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 2018 |
| Place of death | Ballarat |