Beryl Joan Fletcher (31 May 1938 – 21 February 2018)Beryl Fletcher ObituaryObituary: Feminist author a determined woman 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 ; Spinifex Press, 2002,

Juno and Hannah. Spinifex Press. 2013.

Memoir

References

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