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Peter Hawes
Hawes in 1994
Hawes in 1994
Born
Peter Robert Hawes

(1947-09-30)30 September 1947
Westport, New Zealand
Died29 October 2018(2018-10-29) (aged 71)
Koitiata, New Zealand
OccupationWriter
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
GenresNovel, playwriting, scriptwriting
Years active1974–2018

Peter Robert Hawes (30 September 1947 – 29 October 2018) was a New Zealand playwright, novelist, and scriptwriter.

Biography

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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

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Novels

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  • 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

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  • 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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Peter Hawes (2014), Forty Years of Centrepoint Theatre: The History According to Hawes (PDF), p. 77, Wikidata Q107708826, a history of Centrepoint Theatre in Palmerston North

References

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  1. ^ "Peter Hawes" (author biography). Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  2. ^ "La Hoguera". Iberlibro. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Hawes, Peter". Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. ^ Thomas, Carly (31 October 2018). "The final curtain falls for playwright Peter Hawes". Stuff. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
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