Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Peter Temple died last month, we duly mourned the gap he left in our literature. We lost a Miles Franklin winner, hailed as the ...

Temple won the 2010 Miles Franklin for Truth, arguably becoming the first crime writer to collect our paramount book prize. I say arguably because Temple was dismissive of labels. Truth loosely ...

He had worked in journalism and academe in Sydney, Bathurst and Melbourne. In 1989, with his wife Anita Rose-Innes and their son Nicholas, he decamped to Ballarat, 90 minutes west of Melbourne, and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Peter Temple, the first crime writer to win Australia’s most significant literary award, the Miles Franklin, has died. He was 71. Temple ...

Peter Temple is a writer in the crime genre, but that's where the formula ends because he is deeply interested in language, he is funny and wry and he is a devastating student of the human psyche.

The acclaimed Australian crime writer had a deep appreciation for the folly of things Email was invented entirely for the benefit of Peter Temple. He knew this and he made full use of the fact. From ...

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In a voice loud and theatrical, Peter Temple often broke the soft chatter of cocktail parties and dinners by quoting from Shakespeare's plays. In the late 1940s, he spent a few years acting with the ...

Temple, considered the first crime writer to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award, died at his home in Ballarat on Thursday, with his wife Anita and their adult son Nicholas at his side. South Africa ...