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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