Philip Temple
Robert Philip Temple ONZM (born 1939 in Yorkshire, England) is a Dunedin-based New Zealand author of novels, children's stories, and non-fiction. His work is characterised by a strong association with the outdoors and New Zealand ecology.[1]
Career
Temple's early work was non-fiction, describing mountaineering expeditions to New Guinea and New Zealand and includes Nawok! (1962), Castles in the Air: Men and Mountains in New Zealand (1969), The Sea and the Snow: The South Indian Ocean Expedition to Heard Island (1966), and The World at Their Feet (1973).
Following this he produced a number of novels - The Explorer (1975), Stations (1979), Beak of the Moon (1981), Sam (1984), Dark of the Moon (1993), and To Each His Own (1999) - and many children's books, among which the most notable are The Legend of the Kea (1986), Kakapo, Parrot of the Night (1988), and Kotuku, Flight of the White Heron (1994). In 1980. Temple held the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago.
More recently, Temple has turned to an autobiographical relation of his own mountaineering adventures (The Last True Explorer (2002)) and a history of the Wakefield clan in New Zealand (A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields (Auckland University Press, 2002), which won the Ernest Scott History Prize in 2003, the Ian Wards Prize for Historical Writing in 2003, and the Biography category of the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. He was also awarded the 2003 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency[2] and the 2005 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement in non-fiction.[3]
Works
Non-fiction
- Nawok!: The New Zealand Expedition to New Guinea's Highest Mountains (J.M. Dent, 1962)
- The Sea and the Snow: The South Indian Ocean Expedition to Heard Island (Cassell, 1966)
- The World at Their Feet (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1969)
- Mantle of the Skies: Southern Alps of New Zealand (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1971)
- Christchurch: A City and its People (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1973)
- Castles in the Air: Men and Mountains in New Zealand (John McIndoe, 1973)
- New Zealand Explorers: Great Journeys of Discovery (Whitcoulls, 1985)
- A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields (Auckland University Press, 2002)
- The Last True Explorer: Into Darkest New Guinea (Godwit, 2002)
- Mountain: Where the Land Touches the Sky (Penguin, 2007)
- Life As A Novel: A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt. Volume One 1932–1973 (David Ling, 2018)
Novels
- The Explorer (Hodder & Stoughton, 1975)
- Stations (Collins, 1979)
- Beak of the Moon (Collins, 1981)
- Sam (Hodder & Stoughton, 1984)
- Dark of the Moon (1993)
- To Each His Own (Hazard, 1999)
- White Shadows, Memories of Marienbad (Vintage, 2005)
- I Am Always With You (Vintage, 2006)
- MiStory (Frontpublishing, 2014)
Children's literature
- The Legend of the Kea (1986)
- Kakapo, Parrot of the Night (1988)
- Kotuku, Flight of the White Heron (1994)
References
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- 1959 Ian Cross
- 1960 Maurice Duggan
- 1961 John Caselberg
- 1962 R.A.K. Mason
- 1963 Maurice Shadbolt
- 1964 Maurice Gee
- 1965 Janet Frame
- 1966–67 James K. Baxter
- 1968 Ruth Dallas
- 1969 Warren Dibble
- 1970 O. E. Middleton
- 1971 Noel Hilliard
- 1972 Ian Wedde
- 1973 Graham Billing
- 1974 Hone Tuwhare
- 1975 Witi Ihimaera
- 1976 Sam Hunt
- 1977 Keri Hulme
- 1977–78 Roger Hall
- 1978 Peter Olds
- 1979 Michael A. Noonan
- 1980 Philip Temple
- 1981–82 William Sewell
- 1983 Rawiri Paratene
- 1984 Brian Turner
- 1985–86 Cilla McQueen
- 1987 Robert Lord
- 1988 John Dickson
- 1989 Renée
- 1990 David Eggleton
- 1991 Lynley Hood
- 1992 Owen Marshall
- 1993 Stuart Hoar
- 1994 Christine Johnston
- 1995 Elspeth Sandys
- 1996 Bernadette Hall
- 1997 Paddy Richardson
- 1998–99 Michael King
- 1999 Paula Boock
- 2000 James Norcliffe
- 2001 Jo Randerson
- 2002 Alison Wong
- 2003 Nick Ascroft
- 2003 Sarah Quigley
- 2004 Kate Duignan
- 2005–06 Catherine Chidgey
- 2006 Dianne Ruth Pettis
- 2007 Laurence Fearnley
- 2008 Sue Wootton
- 2009 Michael Harlow
- 2010 Michele Powles
- 2011 Fiona Farrell
- 2012 Emma Neale
- 2013 David Howard
- 2014 Majella Cullinane
- 2015 Louise Wallace
- 2016 Victor Rodger
- 2017 Craig Cliff
- 2018 Rhian Gallagher
- 2019 Emily Duncan
- 2020 John Newton
- 2021 Becky Manawatu
- 2022 Albert Belz
- 2023 Kathryn van Beek
- 2024 Mikaela Nyman
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