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Award-Winning New Zealand Author Shares ‘His Colenso’
1 March 2012
As part of New Zealand Book Month,
Hawkes Bay Museum & Art Gallery present award-winning New
Zealand author Peter Wells, who will talk on his book The
Hungry Heart: Journeys w ith William Colenso. Wells was
the keynote presenter at the William Colenso Bicentenary
Conference, held in Napier in November 2011 and will deliver
an encore performance of this presentation on Wednesday 28
March at the Ormond Chapel in Napier.
Peter will talk on ‘his Colenso’, how he went about writing his book which has been widely praised and c alled ‘the book of the year’ (Otago Daily Times) and ‘a tour de force’ (The New Zealand Herald).
Controversial, opinionated, insightful and passionate, William Colenso had a keen appreciation of what it was to be an inhabitant of New Zealand in its earliest incarnation as a world of Maori and Pakeha. He was not only one of the fathers of New Zealand, but a central character in 19th Century Hawke’s Bay.
Numbers are limited for this talk and bookings are essential. Copies of The Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso will be available for purchase, and for signing by the author on the night.
Peter Wells’
William Colenso Wednesday 28 March 2012 at
5.30pm Ormond Chapel, Napier Terrace, Hospital Hill Limited
numbers, bookings are essential. To book, phone HBMAG on 835
7781 or email info@hbmag.co.nz by Friday 23 March 2012. Book
online by visiting the www.hbmag.co.nz Events Page or pay in
person at the Napier i-SITE. Cost: $10 for general public,
$5 for friends
of HBMAG
Peter Wells Biography Peter Wells, MNZM is a writer and film-maker, and co-founder of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival. He has won the NZ Book Award for Fiction for his first book of short stories, Dangerous Desires which was published by Viking Penguin in New York and Secker and Warburg in London. His memoir Long Loop Home won the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Biography. In 2009 Peter Wells won the Copyright Licensing Award to write a book on William Colenso. In 2011 Peter Wells was awarded the Creative New Zealand Michael King Fellowship.
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