Peter Hawes
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| Born | Peter Robert Hawes 30 September 1947 Westport, New Zealand |
| Died | 29 October 2018 (aged 71) Koitiata, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | University of Canterbury |
| Genres | Novel, playwriting, scriptwriting |
| Years active | 1974–2018 |
Peter Robert Hawes (30 September 1947 – 29 October 2018) was a New Zealand playwright, novelist, and scriptwriter.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Born in Westport, Hawes gained a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch.
While living in Barcelona, he wrote a novel about the Spanish Inquisition, a best seller in its Spanish translation by J. A. Bravo:[1] La Hoguera (The Bonfire), published in 1974.[2] After returning to New Zealand in 1975, he worked for television, as a researcher and journalist, and as a scriptwriter for various series, including Fraggle Rock, and Against the Law.
Several of his plays remain unperformed; for example, A Higher Form of Killing.
Hawes died at Koitiata on 29 October 2018.[3][4]
Selected works
[edit | edit source]Novels
[edit | edit source]- La Hoguera (in Spanish) (The Bonfire), 1974
- Tasman's Lay, 1995
- Leapfrog with Unicorns, 1996
- Playing Waterloo, 1998
- Inca Girls Aren't Easy, 1999
- The Dream of Nikau Jam, 2000
- Royce, Royce, the People's Choice, 2002
Plays
[edit | edit source]- Alf's General Theory of Relativity, 1981
- Ptolemy's Dip, 1982
- Armageddon Revisited, 1983
- Goldie: A Good Joke, a portrait of the early New Zealand painter C. F. Goldie, 1987
- 1946 The Boat Train, which examines the effect of the World War 2 on the lives of four women, 1991
- Aunt Daisy!, 1989
- The 1944 Olympic Games, one-act play
- A Higher Form of Killing, about physicist Ernest Rutherford
- The Inquisition Dies, developed from material in La Hoguera
Other
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References
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External links
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