Sunday, November 19, 2006

Storming Temple

Via Detectives Without Borders comes news that Australian crime novelist Peter Temple (The Broken Shore), who just two months ago was given his fifth Ned Kelly Award, has been honored yet again for his prose, this time with a two-year, $90,000 fellowship--“the richest annual grants given to writers by the Australia Council for the Arts,” according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Temple told the paper that he’s surprised to receive this grant, which is given to “highly accomplished literary writers.” “People with my reputation don’t get grants,” he’s quoted as saying.

We’re pleased to see that statement proved wrong.

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