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Robert Philip TempleONZM (born 1939 inYorkshire, England) is aDunedin-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 Zealandecology.[1]
Temple's early work was non-fiction, describing mountaineering expeditions to New Guinea and New Zealand and includesNawok! (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), andThe 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), andTo Each His Own (1999) - and many children's books, among which the most notable areThe Legend of theKea (1986),Kakapo, Parrot of the Night (1988), andKotuku, Flight of the White Heron (1994). In 1980. Temple held theRobert Burns Fellowship at theUniversity 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 theWakefield 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 2003Montana New Zealand Book Awards. He was also awarded the 2003 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency[2] and the 2005Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement in non-fiction.[3]
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