Peter Temple
Peter Temple ( b. 1946 in South Africa) is an Australian thriller 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 the Friedrich Reinecke publishing house in Hamburg. In 1980 he went to Australia, where he worked for the magazine Australian Society. At the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and other universities, he also lectured in journalism and media studies.
In 1995 he started his own business and began writing crime novels. His first novel, Bad Debts introduced the private investigator and ex- lawyer Jack Irish, which determines in Melbourne. In 1997 he was awarded the Australian Ned Kelly Award for best first novel. Since then, he writes alternately thrillers featuring Jack Irish and no fixed investigators. The Ned Kelly Award he won in the category for Best Novel four more times so far.
Temples novels set very strongly deals with the Australian community; he also became a long time not be published abroad, because his publisher Random House to " Australian" took him for. Therefore, he eventually moved in 2003 to the independent text - publishing publisher from Melbourne who successfully introduced him to the international market.
His most successful novel The Broken Shore ( Cold August / 2005), which has been translated worldwide. In addition to the Ned Kelly Award and two other more general Australian book prices Temple became the first Australian writer 2007 Duncan Lawrie Dagger renowned British (Gold Dagger ). The Broken Shore is set in rural Australia and assumes, among others, the problems of Australian Aborigines and the Australian Local policy.
Peter Temple lives with his wife and an adopted son in Ballarat west of Melbourne.
Works
The Jack Irish series
- Track to nowhere, German Sigrun Zühlke, Munich. Goldmann 2008 ISBN 978-3-442-46396-1
- The final message, dt Sigrun Zühlke, Munich. Goldmann 2009 ISBN 978-3-442-46763-1
- Commemoration of the dead, dt Sigrun Zühlke, Munich: Goldmann, 2010 ISBN 978-3-442-46813-3.
Other novels
- Days of evil, dt Sigrun Zühlke, Munich: C. Bertelsmann, 2012 ISBN 978-3-570-00999-4.
- Cold August, German Hans. M. Herzog, Munich: 2007 ISBN 978-3-570-00950-5 C.Bertelsmann.
- 2011 Truth, German by Hans M. Herzog, Munich: 2011 ISBN 978-3-570-01099-0 C.Bertelsmann.