Peter Temple

Australian crime fiction writer (1946-2018) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Peter Temple
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Peter Temple (10 March 1946 8 March 2018) was an award-winning South Africa-born Australian crime fiction novelist. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was known for writing the Jack Irish series and for the award winning novel The Broken Shore. He has also won five Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction.

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Temple in 2011

Temple died from pancreatic cancer in Ballarat, Victoria on 8 March 2018 at the age of 71.[1]

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