Peter Hawes
# Peter Hawes

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

## Biography

Born in Westport, Hawes earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch.

Whilst living in Barcelona, he wrote—in Spanish—a best-selling novel about the Spanish Inquisition: La Hoguera (The Bonfire), 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 on 29 October 2018.

## Selected works

### Novels

* La Hoguera (in Spanish) (The Bonfire), 1974
* Tasman's Lay, 1995
* Leapfrog with Unicorns, 1996

### 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

### Other

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

