Beryl Fletcher
Beryl Fletcher has published short stories, four novels and a volume of memoir The House at Karamu (2003). Her first novel The Word Burners won a regional (Pacific, South East Asia) Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in 1992.
Her novels take as their theme the re-writing of established power structures, particularly those of the patriarchy. She has been awarded two writers in residence in the USA (1994 and 2005) and two in New Zealand. Her work has been translated into German and Korean. In 2009 she was appointed the Pan-Commonwealth judge of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize.
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The Silicon Tongue by Beryl Fletcher.
Korean: Creative Times Publishing Company;
German: So Weit war das Land: William Goldman Verlag, Random House (HB);
btb, Random House (pb);
Extract in Land der roten Erde: Goldmann;
New edition: Pixels Ahnan: edition fünf.
The Bloodwood Clan by Beryl Fletcher: German: Die Fremde: btb.