Neville Peat

Neville Douglas Peat MNZM (born 1947)[1] is a New Zealand author and photographer, based at Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula. He specialises in topics about natural history, notably that of southern New Zealand and New Zealand's subantarctic islands. He has written over 40 titles since the late 1970s and has been writing full-time since 1986.[1]

Peat in 2018

Biography

Peat's heritage is Scottish, described as is a fifth-generation descendant of Scottish pioneers in Otago.[2]

Peat has been a Councillor on the Otago Regional Council since 1998, and was its Deputy Chairperson from 2004 to 2007.[3]

In 2004, Peat was behind moves to create an official flag for Otago. This culminated in a competition run through the auspices of the Otago Daily Times newspaper and Otago Polytechnic School of Art towards the end of that year.[4]

In 2007, because of the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship, he completed a comprehensive book on the Tasman Sea The Tasman: Biography of an ocean.[3]

Awards

1994 - Dunedin Citizen of the Year because of his books on the region and establishing the Dunedin Environmental Business Network.[3]

1996 - Peats and co-author Brian Patrick won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards for the book Wild Dunedin.[5]

2007 - Peat was awarded the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship, New Zealand's largest literary award.[6]

2016 - CLNZ Writers' Award for his project The Invading Sea.[7][8][9]

2018 New Year Honours - Peat was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to conservation.[10]

References
  1. "Neville Peat". New Zealand Book Council. January 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  2. "Neville Peat". Penguin New Zealand. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  3. "The Lark Trilogy by Neville Peat". Penguin NZ. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  4. Peat, Neville (15 June 2004). "More to an Otago flag than just a design". Otago Daily Times. p. 17.
  5. "Wild Dunedin: The natural history of New Zealand's wildlife capital". University of Otago. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  6. "Acclaimed author to receive $100,000 Michael King Fellowship". Creative NZ. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  7. "Governance, Policies & Annual Report: 2016 Annual Report". Copyright Licensing New Zealand. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  8. "Writing on Climate-Change leads to $25,000 Award". Scoop culture. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  9. "Neville Peat". Copyright Licensing New Zealand. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  10. "New Year honours list 2018". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 30 December 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2018.


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