![]() ![]() ![]() The Broken Shore, which won the coveted British Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger award in 2007 – the first Australian author to do so – and Truth, awarded the Miles Franklin in 2010, were significant works of local crime fiction that, arguably, helped usher in the popularity of literary crime fiction in Australia.ĭavid Honeybone, former editor of the influential hard copy magazine, Crime Factory, and a fan of Temple’s work, interviewed the author for issue 2 of the magazine in 2010. His Jack Irish novels were made into a popular television show by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ![]() The death of Peter Temple at the age 71 has robbed Australia of what is undeniably one of its most influential crime writers. ![]()
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