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Peter Temple's Truth Bags Miles Franklin Award

Peter Temple's Truth (published in the UK by Quercus) established a precedent last night when it became the first crime novel to bag Australia's most important literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award.

Temple, who has won five Ned Kelly awards for crime fiction, now lives in Australia after emigrating from South Africa.

The award (whose first recipient was Patrick White in 1957)is presented to ''the novel of the year which is of the highest literary merit and which must present Australian life in its many phases''.

Temple pointed out that crime fiction would be a benificiary from his win -Truth was in fact the first crime novel to be shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.

Posted at 8:39AM Wednesday 23 Jun 2010

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