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 Masters 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

External links

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