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Philip Temple is a New Zealand author with over 40 novels, non-fiction works and children's books to his credit. A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields (AUP), was New Zealand Biography of the Year in 2003, and won the Ernest Scott History Prize from the University of Melbourne.

Philip has been recognised and awarded numerous prizes and several fellowships over his literary career, including the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship (1979), the Robert Burns Fellowship (1980), the 1996 NZ National Library Fellowship, a Berliner Künstlerprogramm stipendium in 1987 and the 2003 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers Residency. In 2005, he was invested as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for Services to Literature and given a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. Following examination of his work, Philip was granted the higher degree of Doctor of Literature (LittD) by the University of Otago in 2007.

Philip Temple lives in Dunedin with his wife, poet and novelist, Diane Brown. Learn more about Philip at www.philiptemple.com

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Philip Temple

Philip Temple

A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields