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Beryl Joan Fletcher (31 May 1938 – 21 February 2018) was a New Zealand feminist 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. In 2006, she was Writer in Residence at the Randell Cottage.

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. Beryl Fletcher Obituary
2. Obituary: Feminist author a determined woman
3. ^ "RiP Beryl Fletcher". Books+Publishing. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
4. "Beryl Fletcher, 2006 - Ambassade de France en Nouvelle Zélande". Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
5. Samdog Design Ltd. "New Zealand Book Council". Bookcouncil.org.nz. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

External links

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

• 1938 births
• 2018 deaths
• New Zealand women novelists
• University of Waikato alumni
• 20th-century New Zealand novelists
• 21st-century New Zealand novelists
• New Zealand memoirists
• Women memoirists
• 21st-century New Zealand women writers
• International Writing Program alumni
• 20th-century New Zealand women writers