Peter Wells (New Zealand)

Peter Wells (1950 - ) is an award-winning writer and filmmaker from New Zealand.

Bibliography

* "Dangerous Desires" (1991) Auckland: Reed Books. Short story collection. Won 1992 NZ Book Award for Fiction and 1992 PEN Best First Book in Prose Award
** The film "Memory and Desire", directed by Niki Caro in 1997, was based on Wells' short story "Of Memory and Desire" in this collection.
* "Duration of a Kiss" (1994) Auckland: Secker & Warburg
* "Boy Overboard" (1997) Auckland: Vintage
* "One of Them!" (1997) Auckland: Vintage
* "Best Mates: Gay Writing in Aotearoa New Zealand" (1997) Edited by Peter Wells and Rex Pilgrim. Auckland: Reed
* "Frock Attack! Wig Wars!: Strategic Camp in Desperate Remedies" (1997) Auckland: Centre for Film, Television and Media Studies, University of Auckland
* "Long Loop Home: a memoir" (2001) Auckland: Vintage. Won the Biography Category of the 2002 Montana NZ Book Awards
* "Iridescence" (2003) Auckland: Vintage. Runner-up for the 2004 Deutz Medal for Fiction and shortlisted for the Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize 2005
* "On Going to the Movies" (2005) Series editor Lloyd Jones. Wellington: Four Winds Press
* "The Cat's Whiskers: New Zealand Writers on Cats" (2005) Edited by Peter Wells. Auckland: Vintage
* "Lucky Bastard" (2007) Auckland: Random House

Filmography and videography

* "Foolish Things" (1980)
* "Little Queen" (1984)
* "Jewl's Darl" (1985) Film for television with Stewart Main
* "My First Suit" (1985) Film for television with Stewart Main
* "Newest City on the Globe: Art Deco Napier" (1985) Auckland: Moving Image Centre
* "Newest City on the Globe" (1985) Written and directed by Peter Wells. Produced and edited by Stewart Main. Auckland: TVNZ
* "A Death in the Family" Film for television with Stewart Main
* "Drama on Film" (?1987) Wellington: New Zealand Film Commission
* "The Mighty Civic" (1988) Documentary. Writer, director (with Stewart Main). Wellington: New Zealand Film Commission
* "A Taste of Kiwi" (1990)
* "Desperate Remedies" (1993) Writer, director (with Stewart Main). Isambard Productions.
* "Naughty Little Peeptoe" With Garth Maxwell

Installations

* "Temples of Wonder" Installation at the Hawkes Bay Museum, Napier.

Unpublished plays

* "Ricordi" (1995)

Honours and Awards

* Made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2006 for services to literature and film

References

External links

* [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/wells.htm List at University of Auckand New Zealand Literature File of works by and about Wells]
* [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/wellspeter.html NZ Book council bio and interview]
* [http://www.nzhouseandgarden.co.nz/Articles/MyFavouriteRoom-PeterWells.asp My Favourite Room: Peter Wells]