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 at Koitiata on 29 October 2018.

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
, a history of Centrepoint Theatre in Palmerston North