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Peter Hawes


Born
Westport, New Zealand

Hawes, Peter (1947– ), is a playwright, scriptwriter and novelist. He was born in Westport and educated at University of Canterbury (BA 1969), then working as a television reporter and travelling to Spain. He lived there for four years and wrote—in Spanish (with the help of a translator who won a literary award for the project) —a best-selling novel about the Spanish Inquisition: La Hoguera (The Bonfire), published in 1974.

Returning to New Zealand in 1975, he resumed work for television, as a researcher and journalist, and as a scriptwriter for various series, including ‘A Week of It’, ‘Fraggle Rock’, ‘Yours for the Asking’ and ‘Against the Law’.

In the early 1980s he began to write for the stage, quickly producing a string of absurdist play
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The Butcher's Boy

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La hoguera

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Royce, Royce, The People's ...

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Leapfrog with unicorns

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Pigeon Post

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The Dream of Nikau Jam

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Playing Waterloo

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Tasman's Lay

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