About Beryl Fletcher
Lived 1938 – 2018 (aged 79–80). Beryl Fletcher was a New Zealand novelist and writer.
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. In 2006, she was Writer in Residence at the Randell Cottage.
Works Spinifex Press, 2002,
Juno and Hannah. Spinifex Press. 2013.
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Who was Beryl Fletcher?
New Zealand novelist
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Beryl Fletcher was born in 1938 in Auckland.
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Beryl Fletcher died on 21 February 2018.
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Beryl Fletcher was a novelist and writer.
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Beryl Fletcher was New Zealand.
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