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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 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 plays: ‘Alf’s General Theory of Relativity’ (first professional performance at the Court Theatre, 1981), ‘Ptolemy’s Dip’ (Court, 1982) and ‘Armageddon Revisited’ (Mercury, 1983).

Closer to realism (but still full of surprises) are ‘Goldie: A Good Joke’, a portrait of the early New Zealand painter (Downstage, 1987), ‘1946 The Boat Train’, which examines the effect of the World War 2 on the lives of four women (Christchurch Arts Network, 1991) and ‘Aunt Daisy’ (Downstage, 1989), a portrait of the New Zealand radio personality of the 1950s, with music by 6 Volts. ‘The 1944 Olympic Games’ (one-act) remains unperformed, as do two full-length plays, ‘A Higher Form of Killing’ (about Ernest Rutherford) and ‘The Inquisition Dies’ (developed from material in La Hoguera).

In 1995 Hawes published his first novel in English, Tasman’s Lay, an inventive and irreverent account of Abel Tasman’s discovery of New Zealand. This was quickly followed by Leapfrog with Unicorns (1996), a satirical work based on material gathered in the mid-1980s, when he was the associate director for a Barry Barclay film (The Neglected Miracle), about the ways in which multinational corporations control the world’s food resources, to the detriment of many third-world economies.

On the evidence of his novels and plays, Hawes emerges as perhaps New Zealand’s foremost current exponent of the comedy of ideas. But, always willing to diversify, he has also turned his hand from time to time to children’s books and to acting (in both his own and others’ plays). ...more

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	The Butcher's Boy 4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La hoguera by Peter Hawes, J.A. Bravo (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Royce, Royce, The People's Choice 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leapfrog with unicorns 2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pigeon Post 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dream of Nikau Jam it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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