Wells, Peter

Peter Wells first book, Dangerous Desires won 1992 NZ Book Award for Fiction and 1992 PEN Best First Book in Prose Award. He has published a second collection of short stories and co-edited NZ's first anthology of gay fiction, Best Mates. His first novel, Boy Overboard, was published in 1997, and his memoir, Long Loop Home, in 2001. The latter won the Biography Category of the 2002 Montana NZ Book Awards. His most recent novel Iridescence (2003) was runner-up for the 2004 Deutz Medal for Fiction and shortlisted for the prestigious Tasmania pACIFIC fICTION pRIZE 2005.