Philip Temple
Encyclopedia
Philip Temple (born in Yorkshire
, England in 1939) 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
.
His 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) and The World at Their Feet (1973).
Following this Temple 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).
More recently, Temple has turned to an autobiographical relation of his own mountaineering adventures (The Last True Explorer (2002)) and a multi-awardwinning 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 and the 2005 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement in non-fiction.
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
, England in 1939) is a Dunedin
Dunedin
Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...
-based New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
author of novels, children's stories, and non-fiction. His work is characterised by a strong association with the outdoors and New Zealand ecology
Ecology
Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
.
His 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) and The World at Their Feet (1973).
Following this Temple 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
Kea
The Kea is a large species of parrot found in forested and alpine regions of the South Island of New Zealand. About long, it is mostly olive-green with a brilliant orange under its wings and has a large narrow curved grey-brown upper beak. The Kea is the world's only alpine parrot...
(1986), Kakapo
Kakapo
The Kakapo , Strigops habroptila , also called owl parrot, is a species of large, flightless nocturnal parrot endemic to New Zealand...
, Parrot of the Night (1988), and Kotuku
Great Egret
The Great Egret , also known as the Great White Egret or Common Egret, White Heron, or Great White Heron, is a large, widely-distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized...
, Flight of the White Heron (1994).
More recently, Temple has turned to an autobiographical relation of his own mountaineering adventures (The Last True Explorer (2002)) and a multi-awardwinning history of the Wakefield
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Edward Gibbon Wakefield was a British politician, the driving force behind much of the early colonisation of South Australia, and later New Zealand....
clan in New Zealand (A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields (Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press founded in 1966, is the book publishing arm of the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.It publishes New Zealand history, biography, poetry, short stories and essays, Maori and Pacific Island studies in addition to scholarly and academic works.-Awards:*AUP has...
, 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
Montana New Zealand Book Awards
The New Zealand Post Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards...
. He was also awarded the 2003 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency and the 2005 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement in non-fiction.