Peter Hawes
Peter Robert Hawes was a New Zealand playwright, novelist, and scriptwriter.
Biography
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: La Hoguera, published in 1974. 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.
Selected works
Novels
- La Hoguera , 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
- 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''