Beryl Fletcher

Beryl Fletcher (born 1938) is a New Zealand novelist. Her first novel, The Word Burners won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book, Asia/Pacific region.

She graduated from the University of Waikato with a master's degree in Sociology in 1979. She was resident at the University of Iowa, International Writing Program. In 1999, she was Writer in Residence at Waikato University. In 2005, she was a Ledig House International Writers’ Resident.^[1] In 2006, she was Writer in Residence at the Randell Cottage.^[2]

Works

• The Word Burners. Daphne Brasell Associates Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-908896-03-5.; Spinifex Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-876756-23-9
• The Iron Mouth. Spinifex Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-875559-22-0.
• The Silicon Tongue. Spinifex Press. 1996. ISBN 978-1-875559-49-7.
• The Bloodwood Clan. Spinifex Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-875559-80-0.
• Juno and Hannah. Spinifex Press. 2013. ISBN 978-1-74219-875-0

Memoir

• The House at Karamu. Spinifex Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-876756-35-2.

References

1. http://www.ambafrance-nz.org/spip.php?article1331
2. http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Fletcher,%20Beryl

External links

• Authors website
• Beryl Fletcher interview, The University of Iowa, Nov. 18, 1994
• "Her way", New Zealand Listener, Beryl Fletcher, July 5, 2003