diff --git a/python/pyarrow/_dataset_parquet.pyx b/python/pyarrow/_dataset_parquet.pyx
index ad914c77bf31c..bc4786b9cd61e 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/_dataset_parquet.pyx
+++ b/python/pyarrow/_dataset_parquet.pyx
@@ -531,6 +531,7 @@ cdef class ParquetFileWriteOptions(FileWriteOptions):
             "use_deprecated_int96_timestamps",
             "coerce_timestamps",
             "allow_truncated_timestamps",
+            "use_compliant_nested_type",
         }
 
         setters = set()
@@ -586,7 +587,7 @@ cdef class ParquetFileWriteOptions(FileWriteOptions):
         self._properties = dict(
             use_dictionary=True,
             compression="snappy",
-            version="1.0",
+            version="2.6",
             write_statistics=None,
             data_page_size=None,
             compression_level=None,
@@ -601,6 +602,11 @@ cdef class ParquetFileWriteOptions(FileWriteOptions):
         self._set_properties()
         self._set_arrow_properties()
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "<pyarrow.dataset.ParquetFileWriteOptions {0}>".format(
+            " ".join([f"{key}={value}" for key, value in self._properties.items()])
+        )
+
 
 cdef set _PARQUET_READ_OPTIONS = {
     'dictionary_columns', 'coerce_int96_timestamp_unit'
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/tests/test_dataset.py b/python/pyarrow/tests/test_dataset.py
index 144da21cf5e6b..7e8ce329be1c7 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/tests/test_dataset.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/tests/test_dataset.py
@@ -4539,7 +4539,9 @@ def test_write_table_partitioned_dict(tempdir):
 @pytest.mark.parquet
 def test_write_dataset_parquet(tempdir):
     table = pa.table([
-        pa.array(range(20)), pa.array(np.random.randn(20)),
+        pa.array(range(20), type="uint32"),
+        pa.array(np.arange("2012-01-01", 20, dtype="datetime64[D]").astype(
+            "datetime64[ns]")),
         pa.array(np.repeat(['a', 'b'], 10))
     ], names=["f1", "f2", "part"])
 
@@ -4551,7 +4553,7 @@ def test_write_dataset_parquet(tempdir):
     file_paths = list(base_dir.rglob("*"))
     expected_paths = [base_dir / "part-0.parquet"]
     assert set(file_paths) == set(expected_paths)
-    # check Table roundtrip
+    # check Table roundtrip with default version
     result = ds.dataset(base_dir, format="parquet").to_table()
     assert result.equals(table)
 
@@ -4559,12 +4561,24 @@ def test_write_dataset_parquet(tempdir):
     for version in ["1.0", "2.4", "2.6"]:
         format = ds.ParquetFileFormat()
         opts = format.make_write_options(version=version)
+        assert "<pyarrow.dataset.ParquetFileWriteOptions" in repr(opts)
         base_dir = tempdir / 'parquet_dataset_version{0}'.format(version)
         ds.write_dataset(table, base_dir, format=format, file_options=opts)
         meta = pq.read_metadata(base_dir / "part-0.parquet")
         expected_version = "1.0" if version == "1.0" else "2.6"
         assert meta.format_version == expected_version
 
+        # ensure version is actually honored based on supported datatypes
+        result = ds.dataset(base_dir, format="parquet").to_table()
+        schema = table.schema
+        if version == "1.0":
+            # uint32 is written as int64
+            schema = schema.set(0, schema.field(0).with_type(pa.int64()))
+        if version in ("1.0", "2.4"):
+            schema = schema.set(1, schema.field(1).with_type(pa.timestamp("us")))
+        expected = table.cast(schema)
+        assert result.equals(expected)
+
 
 def test_write_dataset_csv(tempdir):
     table = pa.table([