Beryl Fletcher


Beryl Joan Fletcher 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.

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