Bernadette Hall

Bernadette Hall (born 1945) is a New Zealand playwright and poet.

Biography Hall was born in 1945 in Alexandra, New Zealand. She was raised in what she describes as "a small-city Catholic community that was proud, theatrical and pretty much enclosed." She has held residencies at both Canterbury University and Victoria University and is widely published.

She is the patron of Hagley Writers' Institute.

Works

Plays Glad and the Angels (1992) The Clothesline (1993) The Girl Who Sings Waterfalls (1992) of Elephants etc. (Untold Press, 1990) The Persistent Levitator (Victoria University Press, 1994) Still Talking (Victoria University Press, 1997) Settler Dreaming (Victoria University Press, 2001) The Merino Princess: Selected Poems (Victoria University Press, 2004) The Ponies (Victoria University Press, 2007) The Lustre Jug (Victoria University Press, 2009) Life & Customs (Victoria University Press, 2014)

Awards and honours 1991 – Writer in residence at the University of Canterbury 2017 – Appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature, in the 2017 New Year Honours