‘Truth’ wins 2010 Miles Franklin award; Temple thanks booksellers

22 June 2010 Books+Publishing

Peter Temple’s crime novel Truth (Text) has won the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award, presented tonight at a ceremony in Sydney. Text publisher Michael Heyward told the Weekly Book Newsletter he was ‘over the moon’, following Temple’s win. He said Truth had ‘changed the possibility of the crime novel’. ‘Truth...