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Peter Wells (Peter Northe Wells) was born on 8 February, 1950 in Point Chevalier, Auckland, New Zealand, is a New Zealand writer and filmmaker (1950–2019). Discover Peter Wells's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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Peter Northe Wells |
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69 years old |
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Aquarius |
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8 February 1950 |
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8 February |
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Point Chevalier, Auckland, New Zealand |
Date of death |
18 February, 2019 |
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Auckland, New Zealand |
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New Zealander
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Peter Wells Height, Weight & Measurements
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Peter Wells Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Peter Wells worth at the age of 69 years old? Peter Wells’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from New Zealander. We have estimated Peter Wells's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Peter Northe Wells (8 February 1950 – 18 February 2019) was a New Zealand writer, filmmaker, and historian.
The same year, working from a Wells script, Stewart Main directed 1960s coming of age story One of THEM! as an hour-long short.
This take on New Zealand's colonial beginnings was selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, and represented an expressionistic alternative to the "man alone" machismo that dominated New Zealand film in the 1970s and 80s.
In the years that followed, Wells concentrated on developing his writing career.
His short stories and novels have been widely praised.
He was mainly known for his fiction, but also explored his interest in gay and historical themes in a number of expressive drama and documentary films from the 1980s onwards.
Two short stories from his 1991 collection Dangerous Desires have been filmed to date: Of Memory & Desire, the tale of a Japanese couple travelling around New Zealand, was adapted by Niki Caro as her first feature film in 1997.
Wells's first feature film was Desperate Remedies (1993), co-directed with Stewart Main.
In 1996 he collaborated with theatre director Colin McColl on an operatic dramatization of Katherine Mansfield's Wellington stories, commissioned for the NZ International Festival of the Arts.
In 1998, with Stephanie Johnson, he founded the Auckland Writers Festival, and in 2016 he founded a festival to promote LGBTQI writers called same same but different (ssbd) which includes an annual prize The Peter Wells Writing Award.
Wells's 2003 novel Iridescence was a runner-up in the fiction category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards and a finalist in the 2005 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize.
In the 2006 New Year Honours, Wells was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature and film.
In 2009 Wells was awarded a New Zealand non-fiction literary prize, convened by CLL (Copyright Licensing Ltd) to write a series of biographical essays on William Colenso, entitled The Hungry Heart.
The book was anticipated to "not be a conventional biography, but an essay series that bears directly on the episodes of heartbreak, loneliness, and sometimes horror that chequered the life of this gifted renaissance man – printer, writer, botanist, explorer, ex-missionary and intellectual maverick".
He was awarded the Michael King Fellowship in 2011.
The book was published in 2011.
Journalist Geoffrey Vine, reviewing the book for the Otago Daily Times, wrote that it had "set a new standard in the writing of New Zealand history and Wells deserves every accolade".
Wells, who was gay, was married to the writer Douglas Lloyd Jenkins.
Wells died from prostate cancer at Mercy Hospice in Auckland on 18 February 2019.